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Rain, so much rain.
Oct. 3rd, 2019 11:19 amI know that fall can be wet, but this is getting silly.
Friday afternoon it started to rain. Not hard, but unceasing. The deck rain gauge (& the buckets) said we'd gotten over 2 inches (5cm). Then it rained on Sunday, raining out the FCB gig at the Franklin Cider Mill; we got another .75 inches (~2cm) by the time that passed through. Then it was unseasonably warm Monday evening and Tuesday. Tuesday night, it started raining again. It never really stopped drizzling on Wednesday, and by the time I checked the rain gauges Thursday AM they were reading 1.5" (3.5cm). That's close to 6" of rain in less than a week. Everything is soaked. We may see the sun tomorrow.
There will be no gardening for three or four days after this rain stops, as the gardens squish when I step in them. I was able to do a bit of cutting back on Tuesday, but nothing that required me to step into a garden.
Late last week, J had a couple of estimators out for solar installations. They both quoted full offset solar with a battery (and 20 year payoff at current electrical rates). Then he asked for an estimate for roof panels on the house with no battery, and it's still over twice what the panels/rails/infrastructure would cost retail, and he doesn't want it done badly enough to pay someone else to do it. So it looks like he's added another big project to his pile. I ain't holding my breath on this one. It took him a year to finish the deck steps, and the decking for the front porch has been piled on the back deck since last July.
This weekend, assuming it doesn't rain, we're going to replace the shingles on the garage - both quotes came with roof panels on the garage, and that reminded us that we didn't do the garage roof two years ago when we did the house roof, and it should be done RSN.
Friday afternoon it started to rain. Not hard, but unceasing. The deck rain gauge (& the buckets) said we'd gotten over 2 inches (5cm). Then it rained on Sunday, raining out the FCB gig at the Franklin Cider Mill; we got another .75 inches (~2cm) by the time that passed through. Then it was unseasonably warm Monday evening and Tuesday. Tuesday night, it started raining again. It never really stopped drizzling on Wednesday, and by the time I checked the rain gauges Thursday AM they were reading 1.5" (3.5cm). That's close to 6" of rain in less than a week. Everything is soaked. We may see the sun tomorrow.
There will be no gardening for three or four days after this rain stops, as the gardens squish when I step in them. I was able to do a bit of cutting back on Tuesday, but nothing that required me to step into a garden.
Late last week, J had a couple of estimators out for solar installations. They both quoted full offset solar with a battery (and 20 year payoff at current electrical rates). Then he asked for an estimate for roof panels on the house with no battery, and it's still over twice what the panels/rails/infrastructure would cost retail, and he doesn't want it done badly enough to pay someone else to do it. So it looks like he's added another big project to his pile. I ain't holding my breath on this one. It took him a year to finish the deck steps, and the decking for the front porch has been piled on the back deck since last July.
This weekend, assuming it doesn't rain, we're going to replace the shingles on the garage - both quotes came with roof panels on the garage, and that reminded us that we didn't do the garage roof two years ago when we did the house roof, and it should be done RSN.
