RedNeckGeek
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- Joined
- Jan 1, 2011
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- Butte County & Orcutt, California
- Tractor
- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
Good Morning!!!! 54F and raining @ 5:30AM. Showers early, then partly cloudy for the afternoon. High 58F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Another caution about wood chips: Crews in the Camp Fire zone used wood chippers to process tons and tons of wood debris left by the fire, creating huge chip piles as a result. Several of these piles spontaneously combusted last summer, and fortunately all were extinguished before they got out of hand.
Got a new front tire ordered for the touring bike yesterday, and put together a list of maintenance chores that need to be completed before the next trip in February. I'll be in touch with the windshield manufacturer on Monday; they've been on holiday break since 12/23/2019.
Got through the mail piles, USPS and electronic, yesterday as well. Found a note from the building department expressing concern that the solar panel array may be impinging on the septic leach field. They included a rough drawing of the leach field, one I hadn't seen before, even though I'd requested copies of their records before I purchased this place ten years ago. Made a few changes to the site plan to move the electrical trench and array locations, and resubmitted it, asking for confirmation of receipt via email. No confirmation yet, so I'll have to call them as well on Monday.:confused2:
Also found a letter from the local electrical utility notifying me of a planned power outage between midnight last night and 2AM. I didn't hear the power go off last night, but did hear various devices making a racket when it came back on at around 2:30AM. And as usual, the Philips Hue lamps came on at their most recent brightness level, which was not zero, so I had to get up and turn them off, again. I have a home automation script that runs every day at midnight, and it turns off all the lights, the HVAC, and all the other "smart" devices, but I should spend the time to figure out how to detect electrical power restorations and trigger that same script.
More catching up to do today.
Hope everyone's weekend gets off to a great start!
Another caution about wood chips: Crews in the Camp Fire zone used wood chippers to process tons and tons of wood debris left by the fire, creating huge chip piles as a result. Several of these piles spontaneously combusted last summer, and fortunately all were extinguished before they got out of hand.
Got a new front tire ordered for the touring bike yesterday, and put together a list of maintenance chores that need to be completed before the next trip in February. I'll be in touch with the windshield manufacturer on Monday; they've been on holiday break since 12/23/2019.
Got through the mail piles, USPS and electronic, yesterday as well. Found a note from the building department expressing concern that the solar panel array may be impinging on the septic leach field. They included a rough drawing of the leach field, one I hadn't seen before, even though I'd requested copies of their records before I purchased this place ten years ago. Made a few changes to the site plan to move the electrical trench and array locations, and resubmitted it, asking for confirmation of receipt via email. No confirmation yet, so I'll have to call them as well on Monday.:confused2:
Also found a letter from the local electrical utility notifying me of a planned power outage between midnight last night and 2AM. I didn't hear the power go off last night, but did hear various devices making a racket when it came back on at around 2:30AM. And as usual, the Philips Hue lamps came on at their most recent brightness level, which was not zero, so I had to get up and turn them off, again. I have a home automation script that runs every day at midnight, and it turns off all the lights, the HVAC, and all the other "smart" devices, but I should spend the time to figure out how to detect electrical power restorations and trigger that same script.
More catching up to do today.
Hope everyone's weekend gets off to a great start!
