Good Morning!!!! 38F @ 7:00AM. Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming cloudy during the afternoon. High 62F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
We're supposed to have rain overnight, but less than a quarter inch. Then more Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with as much as 1.5" total accumulation, then piddling amounts on and off next week. Too little, too late.
Before I retired and moved up here, I had a cleaning lady that escaped from Czechoslovakia, while she was pregnant with her baby girl. She told me she couldn't stand the thought of raising a child in a Communist country. Took her years, but she eventually made her way to Canada, then the US. Quite a courageous story, one maybe worth sharing with that troubled young woman, Helogabals.
It would be neat to recreate that beautiful photo of your daughter, Kyle.
The boys are making good progress on the driveway. The cut is now about eight feet deep at the top. They're still hitting a rock every now and then, but nothing that can't be dug out with the backhoe. I gathered up a few of them yesterday to get them out of the way, along with a couple of trees that had to come down on the loop road as they build it up with the dirt spoils. They're hoping there's enough rain to soften the dirt to make digging easier. If they continue at the current pace, they might actually finish in two more days.
I finally got through to a tech support person at Outback Power yesterday to ask questions about the voltage sag issue with the solar power system. He didn't have an answer, but promised to share the thread I started on their user forum with next level support personnel. He also told me my access to the web monitoring software had been disabled by the non-responsive contractor, and that he couldn't restore it. I asked that he escalate that issue, too, so we'll see what happens.
Yesterday was cool enough that the house only warmed to 68F, so I started a fire in the wood stove before dinner. Had to fill the wood cart first, probably the last time I'll have to do that before summer.
With the temperature in the high 30s this morning, I just checked and the crank-no-start problem with the van seems better. It sputtered and quit the first two start attempts, but caught and settled into a high idle the third time. Previously, it just wouldn't start at all with the temps that low. Today I'll get to wiggle wires and see if any make it quit while running. Might be a few other checks I can do, too.
Happy Hump Day!
