a warm 59 degrees here, going up to 72 in hopefully some rain this afternoon and tonight. System looks pretty weak so far, most of the rain is up in VA, but I hope we get something. I'd take a measly .25.......
Buppies, please steer a few drops off to the right and down here please. Actually let's make a deal. I'll get the rain all week, and you get it on the weekends when you aren't paving. Oh. Wife would not be happy with that.
boy all this talk of bad winter weather. So now what, I have to buy a snowblower for coastal NC???? I gave mine away
before I moved with great delight.
Well, electrician coming next week to install an interconnect box for my portable gen to at least run the critical circuits.
I've been wondering if I'm stupid for not just installing a whole house gen, like I had before, but that's just one more expense added to many,
which you all are clearly witnessing...so for this first winter I'm going to stick with my 7500 gas gen plugged in.
Power was lost here for about a week in the last hurricane that gave this place a direct hit. Flooded the entire waterway system pushing water into areas
no one was prepared for. boy did I study that historical flood map before buying this property, and it's nowhere close.
wonder if the Chonda engine in my new Honeywell generator will run for a week straight. Probably if I let it cool off for a few hours and run synthetic oil in it.
I will need to fill up several extra gas cans with gasoline, which I can purchase locally without ethanol, and premium too, and that with some Stabil should be good for a year. Like gasoline used to be...
off to measure out my new orchard and put little red flags where I want the trees to go. Then I'm going to take the lawn mower and mow a path along the pins cut very short. And then I'm not sure. One set of directions says plow the whole field under while the other says just go out and dig the holes.
The latter for sure. Tomorrow I go talk to the local ag agent and hopefully get educated on local pollinization requirements and fertilizers, etc.
What was really interesting was while I was at the local Verizon Wireless store, the manager overheard my conversation talking about building a fruit orchard, and
he zoomed right over to start asking questions. He is a beekeeper and head of the local beekeeper club, and they have members who would love to put a hive near an orchard. Going to ask the ag agent about that for sure. Seems interesting on the surface.
