More warmth. It’s supposed to be hot again today. At some point yesterday it was over 101F in my driveway… of course in past years that would be normal for this week. The light overcast cleared late morning and then it was sunny and hot. Today should be more of the same.
I didn’t get much done in the morning yesterday. Took the kid to school because my wife took the other one on her field trip to the beach in Galveston. The school goes every year and it’s a great time for the kids. W enjoyed her time with the other moms, and got to know her new car on the way down. She likes some of the driver assistance stuff, but acknowledges that I would hate it, and that it falls apart in construction zones. The sales guys said the windshield, with the camera glued to it, was less than $900 not thousands, if it needed to be replaced. Still not as cheap as straight glass, and I bet there aren’t any aftermarket choices. Oh well, not my car.
I did a lot of driving in the afternoon and some of it was really a waste. IDK how I got the pickup days wrong for the two auctions in Dickenson (way south, only 20 miles from Galveston) but I didn’t roll two pickups into one trip, and even the pickup I did was on the wrong day, and it would have been cheaper to have the items shipped… I’m going to have to stop bidding in those two auctions, they are just too far away, and I don’t need the stuff that badly.
Took a break in the afternoon to get D1, but she didn’t want to practice driving to my other pickup. So I left her at home and got some camping/cooking supplies. I have a bunch of different ways to cook in a grid down scenario, and they all take different fuels. I picked up some of the butane cans very cheaply yesterday. I like the single burner butane “camp stoves” that so many asians use to cook at the table. Having more fuel for them is a good thing. The cans look like spray paint cans.
As an aside, my strategy is “choices” and “defence in depth” and those apply to all areas of my preps. Instead of having a huge cache of fuel for one type of stove and spares, etc. I have several different stoves, with different fuels, with the idea that I can use whatever fuel might be available… I have reasonable stacks of fuel for each, and combined across all the types I do have quite a substantial cache.
And it’s a little bigger after yesterday. BTW, I picked up a couple of Mr Heater refillable 1 pound propane tanks. I’d refilled the ‘disposable’ ones, but there are issues with that. These are designed to be refilled from a BBQ bottle, and they are DOT approved. Now I’ve got even more flexibility.
Today will be picking up the solar panels and another auction pickup, and doing stuff around the house. I might even get some done this time.
There will surely be stacking too.
nick