Cool and damp, really damp. Joint ache weather as the pressure moves up and down with the fronts moving in and out. We had rain throughout the day, depending mostly on where you were. Some bizarre moments of rain on my head, but clear everywhere around me… then by evening it cleared and got pretty nice. Today will be a cr@pshoot for weather. We’ll just have to see.
I spent a good part of the day driving around. It turned out that I had a new pickup in the same neighborhood that I skipped picking up in Tuesday, so it all worked out. I had three pickups in a 1 mile radius. Then I drove for an hour to pickup the small generator.
A quick look at it and I think the pull rope being broken might be the only issue. Hopefully it’s as simple as that. I want to do the work here, where I have more resources and better internet, then take it to the BOL. It’s far too small to run the house, but I don’t have any generator at all up there now. I do have some solar panels and batteries, so if I got caught up there, I’d have something, but adding the gennie will greatly expand my resilience.
Today I’ll be pulling stuff for my local auctioneer, if the weather stays nice. I’ll also be sorting some stuff for the weekend at the BOL. I’ve got the gennie (maybe) a scaffold, and the usual stuff to take up. Should be a full truckbed.
One bummer, the swimming pool sand filter, pump, and assorted plumbing I picked up is well used. Might still all be working, but not new. I only paid $5, so I’m still feeling ok, and the whole thing is for a future experiment, involving rough filtering of lake water, so there isn’t any urgency either. Still, I thought it was new when I bid. The auctioneer was chagrined that it even got listed, as he’d told his staff to just junk it. I told him that for $5 I’d take a chance.
Water from the lake is one of my long term preps. I’ve got several means of purifying and preparing it for drinking, but filtering first, and in large volumes, would make sense for anything long term or catastrophic. As I said, a long term, low likelihood, but high reward prep. Sometimes I just throw something like that on the stacks.
You should be a bit more focused on your stacking, at least until you have met basic and intermediate needs. On the other hand, if something comes along, it’s cheap, and might save you later, sometimes you just have to grab it.
Stack the good stuff, and the weird stuff, and the good times.
nick