Nuthin’ much goin’ on here

And I have nuthin’ much to add to the fray in the great wide right now.

When I woke, it was -1F,

254K    think I’m gonna stick to that measuerment for a bit,,, looks ‘warmer’ and that may ease the mind a bit,,,,

Gonna have to get out and reseal my foundation,,, I think Voo pulled the one skirt the lower foundation as the floor in the kitchen is COLD as ice.   Not forming frost but cold enough to leech warmth off sock covered feets,,, and the furries are giving it a pass, even when I am in there making coffee,,,  (usually in there begging for cream,,, not today,  they stood off and rowrled at me, but wouldn’t come in,,,)

Day three, No work today

Looks like I’m dipping into savings this week,,,, dammit,,,   Won’t kill me, but much more and I am going to start considering alternatives (and maybe I need, or should say NEEDED to do that already,,,,)  

At least I own, not rent, and I don’t have a utility that can be cut for non-payment They get cut,,, like when there is no wind or sun showin’,,, Or the lines from the water tank freeze.   That hasn’t happened since the first year.  BUT, its at the whim of Gaia, not some knucklehead in accounting,,,,  Hard to argue with Mama-Gaia and her whimsical weather choices.

(and for wind,,, the blades of my turbine are rolled aircraft aluminum, not Fiberglass,,, even in the coldcoldcold winds, they don’t deteriorate like FG blades do.  They may show some erosion, but not enough to effect performance.)

As for “Goin’ Green”, I said it in my book,,, Renewables do work, but only at the highly localized levels, IE Your own home,,,  Anything else (Large scale hydropower being an arguable exception) is foolish and vain (or a scam to milk the gullable)    Alberta Canada is finding this out in a hard way this week.    Dallas Texas found it out a couple of years back,,,    (Something I find incredulous is how they word the article headlines.  One was ‘Alberta hits new record in power generation’: sounds GREAT if all you are doing is skimming headlines,,, not reading the article to find that record is an all-time LOW,,,,)

One thing I figured out fast when setting my system up, was that HEAT is not on that list,,, You don’t use electricity to generate heat unless you have copious amounts of power that would be wasted otherwise.  Tis why I have a woodburner and now a propane wall heater as a back up (and shockingly, they are both running today,, its cold enough that the T-stat is showing need to engage (and I think that has something to do with that cold floor in the kitchen,,,,))

Ok, I may not be making money today, but I have stuff to do to make sure I am not burning (literally) through what I do have.  Gotta fix that foundation skirt and keep the BITTER cold out from under my house.

Y’all try to stay warm, even y’uns in FLoriDUH where I see your getting a taste of our lovely arctic love,,,,

Keep on livin’

((update: Fixin’ that skirt did it. one hour later, the wall heater is off, the air temp in the house is up 10F and a certain draft has gone buh-bye,,, NOW, how to fix it so a certain dawgum doesn’t destroy it again. He likes to get under there in the summertime,,,))