Ok, things have been going a bit more smoothly lately, so I’m back to writing for a while.
Chicken coop continues to go well. I picked up a 12 volt solar battery charger that I’ll be using to power some lights and fans on the chicken coop. The chicken coop will be solar before the end of the summer. We’re down to 3 laying chickens, and picked up 3 more chicks last weekend. The body count at the farm continues to rise, but at least it’s not as fast as it used to be.
It has been damn hot lately too, so the whole house fan has been working overtime.
Yesterday I got cavities filled, 2 of them. Ouch. Novocain doesn’t stop pain, it merely postpones it. Bad day to have cavities filled as my wife made pizza last night and I couldn’t even taste it. Spent the evening sitting on the couch trying to move as little as possible. Even worse is that I have to go back on Thursday and have a cracked tooth repaired. The dentist scheduled me for a full hour because the chip came off so close to the root that he might have to do a root canal. Cavities bad, root canal worse!
Also picked up another weekend project. An outdoor fan to mount to the patio cover over the table. It’s a Hunter Northshore and is designed for wet applications, meaning it should be able to withstand the 2 inches of rain a year we get out here in California
And of course, someday soon I may actually finish up installing the insulation in the crawlspace.
Also spent last week doing a bit of canning. My wife and I picked a ton of plums off our plum tree on the back slope and made a couple of jars of some great plum-vanilla jam and some plum butter. Good stuff and if we did everything right with the water bath, they’ll be good up to a year in the pantry. Which of course leads into the next long term project, someplace to store it all.
Did I mention that I want to put recessed lighting in the kitchen this summer too? Yes, I have lots of projects, time to start knocking back a few, and of course documenting my progress on the site.
