Good Morning!!!! 76F @ 6:00AM. Sunny. High 97F. Winds N at 10 to 20 mph.
AQI 9 and 52, inside and out. Most of yesterday was below 50, with sunny blue skies, too. We're under another Red Flag Warning, and the power was shut off at 4:18AM. Winds have already swung around to the north, breezy in the 15 MPH range with a 25MPH gust in the wee hours. Supposed to stay that way most of the day, then gradually calm overnight into tomorrow morning. Last night's fire recap seemed confident that they'll be able to hold the lines, and there were a lot of aircraft over the southern hot spot most of the day. Hope they can keep it up today as well. High 90s through mid week, then cooling a bit toward the weekend. Fall is struggling to get a toe hold out here yet.
That's the biggest rhododendron I've ever seen, RS! What color are the flowers? I'll keep that stiffener in mind, and sequence the welding to balance some of the distortion front to back with it.
Don't think I've ever seen a tree that red before, Phil. What kind is it? Gonna be a colorful ride for you tomorrow if they're all doin' that!
Just a few handfuls of leaf litter and charred pine needles in the gutters yesterday, but a lot of silt in the bottom. I'll wait for cooler weather to give them one last good cleaning before the rains start.
Air purifier is on track for delivery Wednesday; better late than never, I guess.
Still getting the blinking alternator light on the van, so started reading up on possible causes. The one in there is from NAPA, and I found several reports of early failures with the same symptoms. Turns out that most any alternator from Subaru will fit on that engine, and some of them make a lot more amps than the one that's in there. I even found one company that makes "performance" alternators with up to 500 amps output. I don't need to weld with it, but it would be nice to get 80 or 90 amps at idle in case I need to charge the house battery in bad weather. Subaru wants upwards of $500 for a replacement, and I think I found a rebuilder with a good reputation that can supply one for only a fraction of that cost.
Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend!