Off The Grid

Well today Mrs Johnkowski and I got all the perlins on the green house and all but one truss. Gunna rain like hell tonight and tomorrow so it's a shame we didn't get the footings for the end walls done today too. There's always Wednesday.

This is an interesting peek into banking. Nothing new under the sun. If you want to see where the US (and EU) is heading, watch this. And realize that history may not repeat exactly but it rhymes.

While it looks like he is doing a good job, I think he may be forgetting the whole dampness and water thing. That CDX around the "foundation"? just will not hold up to what it will be exposed to.

Up and moving tgis morning.

Randy weaver explains what happened at Ruby ridge.

Also, several years ago we bought a commercial double fridge for hte kitchen. Arctic Air brand. Made in china, sold from a company in Minnesota. It's 2-3/4 years old and has a freon leak. R290.... and it happens on thanksgiving weekend.... so we took a chest freezer we just got on FB marketplace and I fond an "inkbird" thermostat in my junk box... we now have a Freezerator to get us thru to next week when we can get an HVAC guy out.

Goat down. He was laying on his side cold. Brough him in the barn and got a heating pad on him. Think he got bloat. I hugged him until wife got back with the heating pad and some bloat med. He was really eager to eat. He burped a little and now i think hes just enjoying the warm pad.

Planted 3x custard apple trees about 1 year old, horse radish, Jerusalem Artichokes, wormwood, 2x Rosemary Have 1 x canna edulus up, 2x turmeric up, 1x ginger up and 3 more horseradish up - these all in containers. Bought 150 onion sets last week for R100 and planted them. I cut their leaves down to just above the junction and freeze them. This gives you the green onion tops. As the onions grow we cut the tops for our kitchen. Raw in salads or cook in food. Good flavour. The onion bulbs themselves are a bonus when matured for harvesting. Same with sweet potatoes. Cut the greens to cook like cabbage/spinach. One 🍠 sweet potato can give you months of greens instead of just 1 tuber. I planted about 15 potatoes and 2 sprouted bulbs of garlic this morning. Want to see how they do in this new bed in afternoon shade. Have been unsuccessful everywhere else in the garden.

Each cutting in an individual grow bag in the bath. Warered from bottom. I try to keep about 25mm of water in the bath because in this 40° heat the soil dries out in an hour or 2 and all your effort for nothing

4 baths on the floor and 2 on the table. Trying to propagate cuttings.

2 baths on the table and 4 baths on the floor. Only way to propagate is to keep water about 25-50mm deep in the bath to stop the soil drying out. No other way here. Feed LAN every other watering to keep cuttings nourished

Here's the power draw for a heat pump water heater. It pulls about 400-500w most of the time. However if the tank gets really cold it'll use the heat pump AND electric heating elements. In this case, I swapped the 4500w elements for 1500w elements so when they are on they don't pull too hard on my inverters. It ran the electric heat for about 10 minutes this morning and went right back to heat pumping.

W.....K....R....P turkey drop