Good Morning!!!! 64F @ 11:30AM, still in Orcutt, CA. Partly cloudy. High 66F. Winds W at 10 to 15 mph.
No sign of the aruroa last night or the night before; fog came in right after sunset. Probably too far south to see anything, anyway. I did notice a gap in the Davis weather station reporting on May 10th at around noon, but have no idea if that was caused by a Starlink outage or not. It's been steady ever since.
Disturbing news from Bill. Hope we hear from him soon.
Wait'll that thing starts talking and squawking, Kyle. You might start wishing it kept on going.
Move wise, Kyle, I'm down to some big heavy things, each requiring a trip by themselves on a rented trailer, with room in the van for pretty much everything that's left. But the list of fix up stuff is pretty long. One is to paint the little 5x8 trailer, and I'll use the FEL to tip it up so it's sitting on the tailgate so I can paint the underside first. Then lay it down to do the rest. I wanna do that up north because the tractor won't make the trip south. So that's at least another week delay. Another is to replace the main valve on the water softener resin tank that controls the thing, but it won't be delivered here until Wednesday. I've given up predicting a finish date, and can only keep chipping away until I get there.
So far this trip I've only managed to unload the van, the majority of which is lengths of steel shapes that will land on new hangers in the shed out in the back yard. Lots of lifting and walking to get 'em back there, and there's another load of the same in the trailer.
The lawn was also getting toasty, so I fooled around with the four sprinkler controllers to get the water going again. That got me wondering about how much it will cost to irrigate things, as I'm not used to paying for water. Here are the rates, to which are added about $25/month of administrative and tax fees:
Tier 1 - 0-14 CCF or 10,473 gallons - $4.318/CCF or $0.5772/100 gal. or $0.0057/gallon
Tier 2 - next 28 CCF or 20,945 gallons - 44.966/CCF or $0.6639/100 gal or $0.006639/gal
Tier 3 - over 42 CCF or 31,418 gallons - $5.711/CCF or $0.7634/100 gal or $0.0076/gal
Water ran for about 45 minutes during the tuneup, and the
Flume Water meter said I used almost 1000 gallons. I'll have to keep an eye on that meter over the next week to get a better handle on what that'll do to the water bill.
Last Christmas I spent a few days glamping at a lodge outside of Kernville, and purchased some chandelier type crystals in antique shops in town. A few days ago I found them hiding in the bottom of a courier bag I use when traveling, and finally this morning rigged a ladder to get up into the skylight in the living room to hang them. Woohoo, sparkly rainbows all over the walls and ceilings, but only when the sun hits the right angles. As my old 6th grade teacher Mrs. Mauer used to say, "It takes so little to amuse some people".
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend.
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