The wind out

Its that time of year again. Daylight is creeping into obscurity and my productivity drops as well. But I’m not being unproductive, just not as productive. When my evening chores devour the remaining daylight, my hobbies get put on the backburner, awaiting free days. Sure, I could crank up the lighting, dip deeper into the battery storage and ‘do my thing’, but the load on my batteries takes a hit this time of year for the same reason my productivity does: limited daylight. In addition, there are more cloud covered days and then I have to be even more frugal to make sure I don’t push my reserves below whats good for them. Batteries do not like dropping below a certain point and rarely recover well if they do. Like I said though, I’m not being unproductive. Things have moved along since my last post.The wrap in the above pic is just packing wrap: strictly a test float thing. It might have worked, but had some holes large enough that I wasn’t going to try it. I did get a good look at how she sits though and really liked what I saw. I ordered the skin the next day. That is now sitting in a bucket of water waiting for a cool and rainy weekend to stretch it. (The forecasters are prognosticating that will be this coming weekend. Fingers are crossed.) Nylon stretches best when damp and cool. Cold we have had, damp, not so much. This has been a very dry half of the year, and a couple of old-timers have even stated they have never seen the river this low. It seems funny that the year started so wet that Cumberland falls was a ripple in the river in Feburary, but now you can walk across most sections of the river and not get wet above your ankles. I had posted a short video of my driveway in flood mode on July 7th. Since then, we have had less than 1 inch of rain. Our average for the year is slightly down, but the year started off so wet, people were considering boats over cars.Weather: don’t like it? Stick around, it’ll change. Another ‘dry spell ‘ is income is down. Not much but enough that I’m feeling it. Work is a touch seasonal, and we are in our down season. Been getting some odd projects done at work and its re-enforcing a maxim I’ve recently learned; “build your dream or get hired to build someone elses.”. I really need to get things back in gear with my ‘dream’. I’ve had a dry spell there as well. I could make excuses about kittens and computer keyboards, but I won’t; I’ve been lazy. Now that things are in slow down outside, I need to pick it back up inside. Well, its time to get back at it and rent my time to others for the day. Chat more later.