Post Race!

I'll be down in Ridgecrest area in a few weeks. There was another aftershock yesterday. Perhaps I'll be shaken.

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Originally Posted by RobDog888

We have 27 solar panels so usually we dont get more than a $10 electric bill during the summer when we run the central AC all day and well into the night

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I've thought about doing that. My summer bills are trivial, currently, but my winter bills are high due to having mostly electric heat. So, I use electricity when the sun doesn't shine. In fact, it's a bit worse in this valley because the winter inversion often means that we're under/in thick clouds for weeks on end. So, I probably can't generate when I use the most electricity.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I'll be down in Ridgecrest area in a few weeks. There was another aftershock yesterday. Perhaps I'll be shaken.

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But not stirred

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I've thought about doing that. My summer bills are trivial, currently, but my winter bills are high due to having mostly electric heat. So, I use electricity when the sun doesn't shine. In fact, it's a bit worse in this valley because the winter inversion often means that we're under/in thick clouds for weeks on end. So, I probably can't generate when I use the most electricity.

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There is new Tesla solar technology where they use their battery technology to store solar energy in batteries at your house (in your garage perhaps) for later use when the sun dont shine. This will change things drastically. If we generate too much electricity its "supposedly" sold back to the electric company and we build a credit. Seems better to keep all we generate for use whenever and not have them ding us for a "delivery" charge on electricity we sold back to them. Just more ways to nickle and dime us so we get nothing

Our electric company is very reluctant to allow solar development. It can happen, they just don't want it to happen too fast.

Do they offer free solar cookies?

They don't offer free anything, not even a free kick in the pants...which nobody wants to begin with.

We have some companies offering free solar here but you dont own the panels and any extra electricity is not yours

We appear to do a lease to own kind of thing, primarily, but the power company doesn't want too many people taking them up on the offer. Basically, you spread the cost out over a lengthy period of time. I haven't looked into it very closely, at this point. Too many uncertainties, at the moment.

Another evening of slaving away taking out our avocado tree. My neighbor is helping and we finally got it out after 3 days of part time work (due to the heat). Its a massive stump!

Where's Chenko gone?

Wheres the beef?

Inside the iguana.

the iguana is inside the cow

Everything is inside your mind.

I had a kitty-cat walk past my tent two nights back on my last night out. It was a BIG kitty-cat, though. I didn't see it, but found the prints in the dust the next morning. At first I thought it was a dog, despite having no claw marks. When the tracks left the trail and didn't come back, I realized that it had to have been a mountain lion.

Fortunately, it didn't appear to have caught my scent, or it likely would have tried to bury me.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I had a kitty-cat walk past my tent two nights back on my last night out. It was a BIG kitty-cat, though. I didn't see it, but found the prints in the dust the next morning. At first I thought it was a dog, despite having no claw marks. When the tracks left the trail and didn't come back, I realized that it had to have been a mountain lion.

Fortunately, it didn't appear to have caught my scent, or it likely would have tried to bury me.

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Maybe he didnt like your scent :lol:

That's why he would have tried to bury me.

The post race slid while I was counting fish. If you can't count on fish, what can you count on? Fingers are so old school.

Fish can count on fins