Warm?\u00a0 Sunny?\u00a0 Humid?\u00a0 or rain.\u00a0 No one knows.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was another gorgeous day, although it did get a bit hot by the late afternoon.<\/p>\n
I finished cleaning up the worst of the leftover rat shite and the shelves will be ready for use today.\u00a0 I also cleaned up an area under my workbench, which was storing cr@p that doesn’t need to be in the garage, and had been walked on by the rats.\u00a0 I’ll be able to organize that area now too.\u00a0 Bulk medical will go there in sealed bins.\u00a0 And maybe my gub support infrastructure and my non-prepping hobby messy stuff can go there.<\/p>\n
I’ve still got some food on the garage shelves that I need to get out, then when everything is mostly in one place, I can see what to put back into that area, and what to leave nearer the kitchen.<\/p>\n
I added more dirt to the potato towers.\u00a0 Surveyed the new plantings, and I’ll have to replant some and cover with wire mesh.\u00a0 Otherwise, the squirrels find the seeds to be a tasty treat.\u00a0 It’s been long enough that if the radishes in the window boxes were going to sprout they would have, so I’ll reseed those as well.\u00a0 I’ll give the beets and turnips a bit more time, since I can’t really replace them with anything at this late date.\u00a0 I might have to do a bit more tree trimming to get enough sun where it needs to hit, I’ve been watching the beds throughout the day and some aren’t quite getting enough sun.<\/p>\n
I spent part of the afternoon changing out a camera that just wouldn’t stay in a high rez stream.\u00a0 I’ve got more of that style and make, so I got one out and replaced it.\u00a0\u00a0 I then took the bad one and decided to take out the IR filter so it would give good pics at night, when I have IR floods on.\u00a0 I wanted to test on the bad one before doing it to the backyard cam.\u00a0 Unlike most cams, the IR filter was glued to the CCD chip.\u00a0 Alcohol didn’t break the bond, nor did acetone, but naptha eventually did.\u00a0\u00a0 I threw the cam into place just to see the result.\u00a0 I am now getting good image in the back yard, which is dark under visible light.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they’ve tuned the color to compensate for the IR filter, and without it, daylight looks strange.\u00a0 I don’t think there will be enough adjustment to make it look good.\u00a0 If not, I’ll find another cam to put there that looks good in the day and night.\u00a0 Sometimes, trying to go cheap, with existing stuff, just doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
I hated not seeing the back yard at night.\u00a0 My monitor is mounted on an arm, and lives just above my PC’s center screen.\u00a0 If I hear something or glance up, I can see all around the house.\u00a0 Once you get used to that ability, you REALLY miss it if it’s not there.<\/p>\n
Dinner was chicken mole’ from a(n old) can with additional can of costco chicken added, served as enchiladas with cheese.\u00a0 Refried beans from a can (2018), and a corn salad, and brown rice rounded out the meal.\u00a0\u00a0 The enchiladas were really tasty, and a nice change of pace for Taco Tuesday.<\/p>\n
I think we’ve got a long road ahead of us, and things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.\u00a0 Spicy time is coming.\u00a0 Get prepped.<\/p>\n
Stay in, stay safe.<\/p>\n
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Warm?\u00a0 Sunny?\u00a0 Humid?\u00a0 or rain.\u00a0 No one knows.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was another gorgeous day, although it did get a bit hot by the late afternoon.<\/p>\n
I finished cleaning up the worst of the leftover rat shite and the shelves will be ready for use today.\u00a0 I also cleaned up an area under my workbench, which was storing cr@p that doesn’t need to be in the garage, and had been walked on by the rats.\u00a0<\/p>\n