Nice and cool compared to just a couple weeks ago, still damp.<\/p>\n
Saturday was really nice out.\u00a0 Cool-ish except in the late afternoon sun, with a light breeze.\u00a0 I did get some stuff done, but if you sleep through most of the morning, you get a whole lot less done.<\/p>\n
I got some more cleaning and organizing done in the garage.\u00a0 It was only a little bit, but still some progress.\u00a0 I moved some stuff out of the house,and moved stuff around in the house to put it away, or put it in the ‘to be sold’ pile.<\/p>\n
On most days what I did outside would just be ‘piddlefarting’ around, but some things DID get done.\u00a0 I pruned the grapefruit and orange trees.\u00a0 I intend to keep them about 10ft tall and 2-3ft thick to fit in the narrow bit of my yard between the house and my\u00a0 neighbor’s driveway.\u00a0 I also need them to be small enough I can cover them when it freezes.\u00a0 The grapefruit has about 10-12 fruits, the orange 5-6.\u00a0 They are starting to get ripe too.\u00a0 That will be my best yield to date.\u00a0 I’m hoping it gets better every year now.<\/p>\n
Pruned a bit off the grape vines.\u00a0 They are basically done for the year anyway.\u00a0 Never got a single grape this year.<\/p>\n
Moved my weather station from the north side of the house (my driveway) to the south side (neighbor’s driveway.)\u00a0 That puts it in more natural air, and closer to both displays.\u00a0 It’s still too close to my roof and will continue to read higher than if in shade.\u00a0 I changed the batteries again, and now I can see it on the displays in my office and bedroom.<\/p>\n
I used the Garden Weasel ™ on the bare spots in the lawn and seeded them.<\/p>\n
I didn’t get more seed in the garden though.\u00a0 That is on the agenda for today.\u00a0 Root veg.\u00a0 Lots of root veg.<\/p>\n
My peas are already sprouted in the side garden!\u00a0\u00a0 I better get some steel mesh over them before the tasty sprouts get eaten.\u00a0 I really hope that I’ll get some viable plants and a crop this year.<\/p>\n
Spent some time cleaning the pool.<\/p>\n
Went through some stuff I’d squirreled away.\u00a0 I keep finding stuff tucked here and there.\u00a0 A lot of it really needs to be sent to auction.<\/p>\n
Won a couple of auction items.\u00a0 Another really nice battery charger.\u00a0 If I’ve got a forklift to keep charged, I need a good charger to leave with it.\u00a0 If I end up with a lake house, I’m sure I’ll need at least a charger there.\u00a0 Having good ones makes a difference.\u00a0 I’ve really increased my ability to charge batteries lately.\u00a0 I also won a boat battery selector switch, and some 10gauge jumper cables.\u00a0 I will look at wiring my inverter into my batteries now, with the AC charger and the switch to choose charge or discharge through the inverter… or something like that.<\/p>\n
Found 3 laptops in the trash at my secondary location.\u00a0 Grabbed them.\u00a0 I had a charger for one, a dell inspiron with win7 installed.\u00a0 Someone shut it off during an update and now it’s boot-looping.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a nice widescreen machine in good condition.\u00a0 I’ll set it aside for now, but will likely get the OS fixed, or use a linux bootable to see if it will run.\u00a0 There are a lot of ham related things to do with older laptops.\u00a0 One was an older compaq that probably isn’t worth even booting and I didn’t have a psu handy for it, the other is a really big Toshiba gaming machine.\u00a0 I might order a psu for that just to see what it’s all about.\u00a0 I think it has discrete nvidia graphics, and about a 17 or 19″ HD screen.\u00a0 It’s a giant with full sized keyboard.\u00a0 Funny that 15 year old machines are still usable for something.<\/p>\n
What can I say, I like older stuff that works.\u00a0 It’s cheap.\u00a0 I like fixing and using it.\u00a0 If it lasted this long, it’ll probably last for a while longer.<\/p>\n
“Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without!<\/span><\/span>” a plan for the coming unpleasantness.\u00a0 Keep stacking.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n nick<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Today is the two year anniversary of the death of Dave Hardy, or OFD as he was affectionately known here.\u00a0 There’s not enough Moxie and pretzels in the world for what’s coming.\u00a0 Miss you.\u00a0\u00a0 -Absent friends-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nice and cool compared to just a couple weeks ago, still damp.<\/p>\n Saturday was really nice out.\u00a0 Cool-ish except in the late afternoon sun, with a light breeze.\u00a0 I did get some stuff done, but if you sleep through most of the morning, you get a whole lot less done.<\/p>\n I got some more cleaning and organizing done in the garage.\u00a0 It was only a little bit, but still some progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n