{"id":9050,"date":"2022-07-26T05:09:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=9050"},"modified":"2022-07-26T01:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:36:48","slug":"tues-jul-26-2022-look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/07\/26\/tues-jul-26-2022-look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Jul. 26, 2022 &#8211; Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humid and hot, with a small chance of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 So someone will be getting rain.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, when I was coming home from my pickup down south, there was a huge storm cell west of me.\u00a0\u00a0 I outran it north and then cut across west, and only got a bit of very light drizzle.\u00a0 A bunch of people got a good soaking though.\u00a0 Nothing at my house at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watering the grass and the raised beds.\u00a0 Little to show for it in the garden but the grass is growing.<\/p>\n<p>Did my errands, have more to do today.\u00a0\u00a0 Got some stuff for the house, for my non-prepping hobby, and for the BOL. Today will be a lot like yesterday, maybe with a bit less driving.\u00a0\u00a0 I did score another of the 7cuft chest freezers.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to find a spot for it.\u00a0 It may sit empty until I catch some meat on sale, or I may give it to a buddy.\u00a0 $75, new in box, but probably scratch and dent under the foam.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m bidding on some solar panels.\u00a0 They look like 200w panels.\u00a0 Used of course, but 20 in a lot.\u00a0 4 lots, but I only want one.\u00a0\u00a0 They were installed for some sort of traffic or camera control, and come with the big aluminum roadside enclosure boxes.\u00a0 Last time I got one panel, and the box brought enough when I scrapped it to pay for the panel.\u00a0\u00a0 No batteries, inverters, or charge controllers though.\u00a0 Wish me luck.\u00a0 I&#8217;d love 4000w of solar at the BOL or here.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s critical, and is usually only noticed in its absence.\u00a0 Plan to provide for your own needs.\u00a0 And plan to reduce those needs to something that you can provide.<\/p>\n<p>To smooth everything out, you should have some stuff stacked.\u00a0 Lots of stuff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humid and hot, with a small chance of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 So someone will be getting rain.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday, when I was coming home from my pickup down south, there was a huge storm cell west of me.\u00a0\u00a0 I outran it north and then cut across west, and only got a bit of very light drizzle.\u00a0 A bunch of people got a good soaking though.\u00a0 Nothing at my house at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watering the grass and the raised beds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2022\/07\/26\/tues-jul-26-2022-look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-and-despair\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Jul. 26, 2022 &#8211; Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair! &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,56,96,39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-gardening","category-lakehouse","category-personal","category-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9051,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9050\/revisions\/9051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}