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Shoveled snow. Going to choir practice tonight.
That sounds like a very elegant solution. I don't know how heavy they are, but are you concerned about anchoring them in the event of high winds?Awaiting plumbers to visit. Need to replace both commodes in my forty year old shack. Could do it myself, but my back is prone to act up, and besides, can’t take it with you!
Working lately on adding off-grid solar. Prices for panels and battery units are dropping, plus I took advantage of some holiday specials. Payback is probably never, but my base usage is 200-300 kwh, and I’m replacing a couple of kwh/day. But helps satisfy my need to putz around with tech.
As the photos illustrate, I have two arrays of four 100w panels each, mounted on racks. I decided to buy kits design to move a table saw or whatnot, one of which is shown. From about Oct to Mar, I can scoot the panel nearest the garage wall fully against the wall, but with the sun being higher starting around the spring equinox, the eaves start shading the panels, so I can wheel the rack to adjust. The other array has a different problem, which is the distance it needs to be away from the other array to avoid shadowing.
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Couldn't have said it better. The pain of going to the vet was worse than the 'illness'. Turns out it was a lesion on the side of the nail that just needs some ointment to speed the healing. Although we're concerned that she's lost almost a pound in 4 months when she was at the vet with a UTI. Her lab work at that time was normal, however, we suspect early kidney disease as she'll be 14 in two months. She goes in again in 6 mos. for labs.I've always thought when we took the fur babies to the vet that I wish I could take on the pain / anxiety in their place (although obviously that's not an option).
Hopefully she'll get out of their quickly with minimal anxiety and proceed to a speedy recovery.
Weights is about 15# per panel, and rack is 38#. They are shielded pretty well from prevailing winds. Walls on the north and west. They survived the windstorm last spring, with took trees down all over the area. Units never moved.That sounds like a very elegant solution. I don't know how heavy they are, but are you concerned about anchoring them in the event of high winds?
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Installed an office wall of cabinets. One of the lowers has a safe in it. Had to make the lowers 40" tall to fit it. Got to w*rk with a buddy on the install. Now off to the 4 day vaca with them.
How Ironic. I drove to Same Day Surgery today to get steroid shots in my back. During "intake" I sat next to a guy who is 87 (I'm 78). HE and I both drove to and from our procedures (his was in the cervical spine while mine was lumbar).Took my previous next door neighbor who still lives in the 55+ community to get a pain relief injection in her spine between C1 - C7 to stop the pain in that area. She's a widow and has no one to help her, so I took her there and back. She 82 and not in good shape besides being a two time cancer survivor.