That is an adorable and innocent creature of God, with frens.
How dare you compare it to those vile creatures who serve the Adversary!!??!!
Plywood's like a hundred bucks a sheet now.
So this has to be some pork barrel boondoggle.
Coconut oil also. Keeps a long time.
Awesome build--great job. Insert many upthumbs here. We were doing that some years back and ended up spending way too much on it all...then again we have a LOT of outages where we live (big trees, big winter winds, kamikaze squirrels).
The Jackery 3000 that our young friends saved for/bought was offset by the big sale they bought during, plus the tax credit, plus being given a couple of the solar panels instead of having to buy them (anniversary gift). But I agree that buying Jackery, etc., off the shelf retail can be VERY expensive if approached in the Amazon Shopper method (click and buy).
Those units are quite pricey...so in working up a budget/savings plan, it can help to factor in the tax credits available on the larger units (3000 kWh and up) through the green or clean or whatever energy tax credit program (which I hope DJT leaves in place through 2032).
But if you save, calculate the tax credit, and buy on sale, this can be a sound backup technology.
One of the last things my darling and I did together in the spring was build a system that can power selected household circuits via plugging into our transfer switch. We've always had a gas generator, but hauling out/firing that loud thing up and burning fuel to generate, say, just enough juice to power fans to push woodstove heat down the main hall, or recharge a fridge, is ridiculous.
That's one of the great things about the "solar generators." You only use the electrons you need.
The BlackBerkey filter thing is utterly infuriating...especially as we witness Helene victims trying to get back to safe living. You have to wonder who was behind the decision. The Cheneys/Halliburton would be my guess.
Pleasant Hill Grains has a good summary of this BS at their site:
https://pleasanthillgrain.com/berkey-water-purifier-filter
Berkey water purifiers have been one of our most popular products for many years, and their production has now been halted by the EPA. At Pleasant Hill Grain we believe Berkey purifiers are the most effective, highest quality purifiers on the market. But in some areas (mainly California), government authorities have sought for years to curtail Berkey sales. Those government authorities have offered their justifications, while many others have seen very different motives.
The latest move is that the U.S. EPA has now declared that Berkey water purifiers are a pesticide (seriously…), and therefore under their regulatory authority. Berkey is currently under a government order to cease production. As a result, we (and all distributors) are unable to order more stainless systems. We can can still order Berkey Light—but these remaining Berkey systems are likely to run out soon as well. Berkey has made it very clear that the regulations the government is moving to put in place would mean the end of Berkey.
Berkey’s stock of separate purifier elements is exhausted, and distributors cannot order more.
Berkey is now suing the EPA in federal court in an effort to overturn their policy. It’s unknown when a ruling will be made, and if the EPA decision is allowed to stand, then we expect any remaining Berkey stocks to sell out in days if not hours. So if you want to ensure your personal supply of Berkey systems and replacement elements, our advice is that now is the time to do that. You can read Berkey’s recent statement on these developments here,
https://pleasanthillgrain.com/media/pdf/Berkey-Water-Filters-Sues-the-EPA-Press-Release-Final.pdf
and see an interview of Berkey owner Jim Shepherd by Emerald Robinson here.
https://x.com/absolutewithe/status/1699923966582821135?s=46&t=YOYLTb1OndfnTUo90FwYGg&_kx=
Fill your bathtubs with water
and MAKE SURE THE RUBBER STOPPER PLUG IS SOUND.
One year in a storm outage we realized our tub's stopper had hardened and water was leaking past it. Had we not noticed, the tub would have just slowly drained overnight. Managed to put a couple layers of plastic between stopper and plug socket. It worked, and there was still some system pressure to refill fortunately.
Great topic.
Those of you looking to have backup generation capacity, and trying to fit that with your budget--factor in the "green energy" tax credit program that at present runs I think through 2032 and covers units 3000 kWh and bigger. It includes not just rooftop PV but also "solar generators" (big battery packs) that can be charged via portable solar panels, on grid while you have power, and other ways depending on the product (like DC/car charging, which some RV and outdoor people do, charging the batt as they drive from one place to the next, or from a gas/propane generator).
They are pricey, but in budgeting for them the tax credit can make a big difference. Jackery had deep sales this summer, and the credits on top of that made it possible for a couple young friends to afford a 3000 kWh unit that they'd saved up for for a couple years.
I had no idea they still existed. I got banned constantly in the early '00s for speaking positively about RKBA and after the fifth or sixth time it ceased to be fun doing so. Never looked back.
Dodgers fans
Add it to the list, boys.
Stories I hear from friends who take cruises put me off the idea even more than I already was (which was zero to begin with).
One couple booked a luxury cruise then after boarding/leaving port realized that all sorts of redecoration/construction had just been completed...and was still underway, WHILE UNDERWAY, in another part of the ship. The gal was passing out from the smell of carpet glues, offgassing fabrics, paint, caulk, etc. They were offered to get off at the first port they came to, but no refund and had to pay their way home. She had chemical pneumonia for months after that.
Another couple got trapped on their ship for a couple weeks after an outbreak of some tropical dysentery thing that the local health officials thought was Mongolian Whatever Rot (I don't remember what they thought it was, just punting here). I opined that the health officials were trying to get payola from the ship owner or something. Then the air conditioning stopped working.
Another couple inadvertently hit a spring break cruise. The guy literally fell on his ass in the hall one night, slipping on the floor which was covered with puke (approx the same color as the carpet pattern, he observed).
A retired gal we knew claimed that everything they served in the "luxury" food line was bagged preprepared stuff from Cisco.
Now tell us about your pasty game.
Rutabaga or not?
I think we knew that to be true at least since Brian Stelter self promoted as broadcasting from his home computer desktop without wearing pants to prove how "human" he was.
It's OK though. He can always learn to bend conduit or weld or etc.
Saw this morning that Sundance made the same connection. HON HON HON.
I was thinking of the Gilets Jaunes in France (yellow vests)!
OMG LE GILET D'ORANGE
HONK HONK HONK HONK
-100 to anyone dissing Grocery Outlet.
Family owned stores
Family focused business model
Help families buy top quality organic and fresh food at 20-60% off
GO is my house's #1 grocery store, and we keep a list to drop by any stores when we're on the road.
At the moment I'm eating organic eggs and spicy sausage with organic guac and grassmilk whole milk yogurt, all from GO.
Avid LeaderPlus software.
Look it up. See also online forums where broadcast newsroom technicians talk about the problems they have with the s/w, which seamlessly connects election results to the newsroom to the chyron generator to the web etc.
KING5, get a flippin life or buy an ad here.
I think about him day and night
Hell hath no fury like a f@ggot scorned.
Keystone COMMONWEALTH demmit!
picking up a germ
Funny how no matter how hard and often they tried to infect them they couldn't get anybody to catch Spanish Flu despite inundating them with sick people's secretions.
Many such cases.
Not just blamed, but defamed as an alcoholic by Joepedo every time he felt like waving the bloody shirts of his family members for political points-scoring via PR stunts.
There were discussions at the time and after that Neilia Hunter Biden (who was a very lovely woman) had just come from the state line liquor store (just over the DE border from PA) about two miles from where the crash happened...and that Joe pushed the "Dunn the Drunk" story on advice of his handlers to keep that from gaining awareness. But honestly I don't know. It was a horrid tragedy all around.
If Neilia herself had some sort of substance use issues, it wouldn't be surprising given the stresses she lived with. And even a trip to that liquor store wouldn't be, the week before Christmas. Every Irish and Italian Catholic family in the more upscale suburbs of Wilmington held HUGE open bar Christmas and New Years parties then, with plenty of underage drinking etc.
Joe is a weak, hollow, fifth rate puppet of a man.
There used to be a lot of local intel on Joe on the internet in the '90s and into '00s but it all got scrubbed as he was handpicked to run with Obama.
Imagine the fabric of lies that Hunter Biden grew up inside of.
Salt.
Lots n lots of salt.