Good Morning!!!! 60F @ 6:30AM. Mainly sunny. High around 80F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Randy, if it turns out that your battery maintainer let you down, I've been using
Battery Savers now for more than a year without issue. There's one on the fire truck now...
WNG, nectar consumption is on the rise here, so maybe the migration south has started. I put out 3 gallons the morning I left on the trip, and all were empty four days later when I returned.
Swede's Flat, about twenty miles southeast of here, caught fire again over the weekend, but this time was held to 400 acres. That area seems to burn at least once each season, and the steep terrain makes it really tough to fight. Another far larger fire (44,000 acres) that also started over the weekend northeast of here in the Plumas National Forest is only 7% contained. Three additional victims of the Camp Fire were positively identified, bringing the total to 84. Two bodies from Concow still remain unidentified, bringing the death toll from that fire to 86.
Last night, a man rolled a pickup truck on the four lane concrete bridge across the West Branch of the Feather River just south of here. The pickup went one way, he the other, over the bridge to the rocks below. He was severely injured, and was taken by boat to a helipad, and then via life flight to a local hospital.
Filled in the last of the excavations for the sprinkler system yesterday morning while it was still cool, and today I'll probably make a start on clearing the rest of the fire debris. First, if the winds remain calm, I'll spray some weeds. Spent the rest of the day fiddling with the red bike, correcting a couple minor issues. Also ordered a new rear tire in a slightly wider size that I hope gives better mileage. I don't think the problem is with the tire as much as it is with my right wrist, though.:laughing:
One of the fellas that organizes the Airhead campout over the New Year weekend down at Anza-Borrego is also a beer home brewer. He usually brings at least two five gallon kegs each year, and this time around he's asked me to pick a recipe that he'll use to make one of them. He's also offered to get me started brewing, and that might be just the excuse to run down to SoCal and help him make it.:drink: