First snow worth pushing

Gardening for Thanksgiving

Due to everyone's schedules, we had our dinner on Saturday.

I had it on good authority that these were really good today!

Time to get that Wind tower up

This is what we came up with to lift the tower.
Two lifts, then add the bale of hay to give a way to slide up the tower.

We got as far as we could, then had to stop when we got to an extra large bump we couldn't climb over safely.

At this point, we could pull it by hand using the guy wires.
We then anchored them, basically these are our insurance policy:

And there's the final product, Wind and solar together!

Gift and favor table, ready for the masses

There is a glimpse of the card box at the far end.
There is a field of vanilla bottles that we got to help label too!

The final product

The Big Reveal

I got the idea Kasey and Adam liked the final product!

Ready to go, I think

Can see the battery pack and switch inside.
Got some help with this!

28 Minutes with the jigsaw

Who'da thunk to paint windows black?

13 pieces like this

Removing the silicone used to temporarily plug the gaps

13 epoxied center pieces

Shingled roof

Windows and doors

All polyurethaned

With roof

Polyurethaned 1/2 of them

Roof cutting

Making a notch for the chimney

Roof cutting

With base

Drying the fresh wood

Center piece test

Painted

Painted

"House sitting"

Gained Windows access to my pi

Thanks to http://www.botcyb.org/2012/06/raspberry-pi-installing-samba-windows.html

Cleaned out and ready for winter

 

 Little later this year than last!

Lavender and carrots tucked in for the winter

Head installed, wired

We got the custom pipe mount on first.
We did install the blades before dark, but didn't get the tail on.
Too dark for a photo.

Parts installed in the power building

Rectifier

Charge Controller

Power Head close-up photos

And this was supposed to be made in the USA?

Sidewalk

This was poured how many months ago, and *this* is the first time I've been back to see it?!?

Wind Tower

Tower itself:

The hinge that Dad had made for the base:

I'm out of the country for the first snow!

Snow! As we are walking into the big house

Snow!
As we are walking into the big house to watch U of M play Indiana!
Did I say snow?!?!

We got to watch the "birds and the bees" put on by the Marching Band

There were 109,503 fans in attendance today

And then Win (of course!)- 63 - 47

She's out of jail!

In like Flynn

Learned a new trick: freeze the ball joint that won't go in, it gets smaller and presses right in.

Who would've thunk!

BANG!

Heat plus pressure = pow!!

It made me jump!
But it jumped out!

Ball joint kicking my butt

The ball joint is stuck in the lower arm.

 

Looking at the new ball joint, its on a taper, so I gotta find a way to bust it loose.