What Are You Doing Today?

Connie Bennett said:
I spent the day watching episodes of the Route 66 documentary. I never traveled the entire route from Chicago to Santa Monica, but I have been on sections in Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Parts of Route 66 are still drivable and it seems there’s a resurrection of the route. I sure hope so. When people say something is as American as baseball & apple pie, they need to also include Route 66.

There are several parts of the documentary that can be googled if any one is interested 🤠

Annnnd IT RAINED🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️. I got a good thunderstorm and a quick cooling down to 77 degrees —— 👍👍. That said the thunderstorm tore a roof off 35 miles east, before it got to me. This was an east to west storm, which is not that common where I live.

Nashville hit a real temp of 101 today. Thankfully I only saw a real temp of 94. I know the humidity will be back, but the storm this afternoon did a great job of cooling until sunset💦💦
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We are seven miles from Route 66. There is a lot going on with the Centennial celebrations.
 
Currently, (6AM) I'm on our desktop here writing to you folks and my wife is on her laptop entering bills into her Ledger, that I paid and printed out receipts for.
A little later, going out to breakfast again. Then, if we have enough energy, will go over Boat/RV Storage, hook-up our boat/trailer and take it over to the water hose on the property and try and start the engine. It's been a good year since we've started the boat engine. If we can't get it to start, later (in a week or so) we will take it to the same marine service we took it to when we lived here before and see what they can do.
Next Saturday, when it's pretty hot here, we are thinking about driving up to Estes Park, which is next to RMNP, and seeing some Elk. A lot of them hang out in Estes Park this time of year.
 
Ken Anderson said:
As someone who spent more than a year hitchhiking, and sometimes driving, around the country, particularly from Michigan to California and back in the 1960s and early 70s, I thought it really sucked when they replaced Route 66.
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About 1966, I got on Route 66 east of Tucumcari and stayed on till I skirted around Albuquerque. If you happened to see a bushy (sort of afro) dark haired girl, around 16, that you couldn't decided was hippie or cowgirl and she was driving a blue Ford pickup pulling a cattle trailer filled with Herefords from Texas and headed to Colorado, then that would have been me. Being by myself, although armed with a hidden 45 Colt, I didn't pickup up hitchhikers. I made 10 trips that summer. I loved that section of 66 and had a favorite diner in Moriarty. I always gave hitchhikers the peace sign and then the thumbs up, indicating I was unable to pickup hitchhikers.

Today, I have no idea what I will do. The bombs last night were continuous from 9 PM till 1 AM. Some were so powerful, they shook my house. I guess we won the war, since my flag is still flying. This is the first 4th, I can remember, that I didn't hear a single siren. I am still belching the over Cajun spiced Brats I grilled up yesterday. :sneaky:
 
Cody Fousnough said:
Currently, (6AM) I'm on our desktop here writing to you folks and my wife is on her laptop entering bills into her Ledger, that I paid and printed out receipts for.
A little later, going out to breakfast again. Then, if we have enough energy, will go over Boat/RV Storage, hook-up our boat/trailer and take it over to the water hose on the property and try and start the engine. It's been a good year since we've started the boat engine. If we can't get it to start, later (in a week or so) we will take it to the same marine service we took it to when we lived here before and see what they can do.
Next Saturday, when it's pretty hot here, we are thinking about driving up to Estes Park, which is next to RMNP, and seeing some Elk. A lot of them hang out in Estes Park this time of year.
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Have you ever been to the Estes Park Elk Festival? I think it is in early October.
 
Faye Fox said:
Have you ever been to the Estes Park Elk Festival? I think it is in early October.
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No. However, we've been into RMNP in Sept/Oct for the "rut" and seen quite a few Elk. In 2022, we decided to go to RMNP for the "rut", but my wife can't handle going up high on Trail Ridge Road anymore, so we turned around and headed back to Estes Park. Found out that Bulls and Cows and be seen at the golf course, so drove there. Yep, there they were! One with a huge rack among his cows. BTW, we are now members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
 
A couple of days of clouds, rain, 70+MPH straight-line winds, and tornado warnings. Should turn sunny here soon though and for the rest of the day, so my vacation from running solar panels around the yard may be over.

Friday I had my first meltdown. No fire, but a mating pair of cable connections melted down.

Part of it was 5 hours in the hot direct Sun at 97 degrees for 5 hours. Part was pulling 16 amps at 34 volts. But these connectors are meant to work on a rooftop all day at up to 30 amps at 1000 volts. So my best guess is that in hauling things around I somehow pulled a connection loose, raising its resistance.

Ordered a set of replacements and the proper crimp tool for them, they arrived yesterday. Watched 3 different videos on installing them, since parts of it are tricky in parts sequence and torqueing things down for a proper weather seal and full current carrying capacity.

So now I have one more tool to not lose track of, along with 11 more connector pairs for the next replacement.

Everything is out there now trickling in a little power until the morning clouds clear out.
 
I think I will combine the morning walk with my appointment for my cancer blood test. Nice and cool this morning and good day for 5 mile walk. My big 6 month evaluation is next week and the Oncologist needs a week so her staff can get all the results entered into a special program, she designed, that makes a graph of results for the markers she watches. It compares them to MRI results, scans, and physical exam. She is a specialist in finding early female cancers and tracking growth which leads to the best treatment at the right time. Amazing lady! She is a board certified Oncologist, Urologist, and Gynecologist.

Beautiful red sky this morning and enjoying a homebrew mocha. I can't see paying $5 or more for something I can make myself for less than a buck. That makes me think about last time at the heart specialty hospital when a friend was undergoing surgery and her granddaughter insisted I try a large double shot espresso, mocha for $5, at their coffee shop. It was harsh, but I drank it all anyway and was semi staggering around, when one of the nurses asked if I was alright. I said yes, but I must quote the wild eyed doe when she came running out of the forest. "I'll never do that for five bucks again." The nurse laughed, but my friends granddaughter just a shook her head.

It is a sad day when you go from her grandmas hilarious bestie to an old personal embarrassment. :sneaky:
 
Jacqueline Lindt said:
Too early to think about that .....be back later ! Always something to do 😂
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Did all necessary housework & a batch of mini omelettes !

Alexa reminded me that I needed to give plants, flowers & vegetable there vitamins ! Was suppose to do that at 8 am ....I'm late 😂. Will go in a bit !

Helping hubby remove our swimming pool ....it's almost empty of water ! Don't know why I had to say water ....what else could it be 😂😂😂😂😂

Have a wonderful day l ☺️
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
A couple of days of clouds, rain, 70+MPH straight-line winds, and tornado warnings. Should turn sunny here soon though and for the rest of the day, so my vacation from running solar panels around the yard may be over.

Friday I had my first meltdown. No fire, but a mating pair of cable connections melted down.

Part of it was 5 hours in the hot direct Sun at 97 degrees for 5 hours. Part was pulling 16 amps at 34 volts. But these connectors are meant to work on a rooftop all day at up to 30 amps at 1000 volts. So my best guess is that in hauling things around I somehow pulled a connection loose, raising its resistance.

Ordered a set of replacements and the proper crimp tool for them, they arrived yesterday. Watched 3 different videos on installing them, since parts of it are tricky in parts sequence and torqueing things down for a proper weather seal and full current carrying capacity.

So now I have one more tool to not lose track of, along with 11 more connector pairs for the next replacement.

Everything is out there now trickling in a little power until the morning clouds clear out.
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Welcome back, @Jacob Petersheim ! Good luck with all the solar power issues.
 
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