I've got 2 near the front door, but not very serious ones. Water, snacks, rain gear, gloves, lights, candles, TP. We're prone to flash flood or landslide.
Sounds good,
try an insulated picnic cooler with spigot. I did something similar this fall when our bath was being fixed, not super warm the next morning however, but if you add a kettle of boiling water it is bearable
I lived with only kerosene heaters for 5 years. The first few were not so bad, but it eventually drove me out of the house and to get a woodstove. If you can find something like this http://www.alexyokohama.com/Products/Kerosen_Fan_Heater_FH-6740H.html they are pretty safe and fuel...
I store them in the crawlspace under the house in a plastic storage bin lined with newspaper and a sturdy bbq grill (like hardware cloth?) on top, weighted down with a rock.
Once a week when I take a basketful out I mix them up.
It doesn't get below freezing down there and they last from...
Nice pics everyone,
No field to till this year so I'm concentrating around the house
cedar logs
front garden
experimenting with tires this year
partially shaded "forest garden" in progress
Yeah they are more expensive even though they're made here so, yes we do pay more, for most everything.
The credits on the vehicles are nearly the same though. The Mitsubishi MiEV plug in EV is now available, 40K. After credit it's 30K, yikes. Not nearly reasonable.
I'm wondering if EV's...
Wow! that was a great and bizarre read. Dunno how they do it. Living in a non-central heat culture here, as some people also choose to do on this thread, makes it all the more strange.
Nice tales,
When I was in school I used to blow off class at least once a month and go to nearby state park to let off steam and relax. One day I was swimming in a good sized lake a coupla miles in and I climbed up on a nice rock to eat my lunch and catch some rays. From directly behind my...
Yeah, I know what you mean kinda. I wish we'd done this from the start when building, .... "if I knew then, what I know now "
xpc, thanks for the advice on the controller. It has a float charge, but doesn't have an equalization charge, or bulk . But isn't bulk the same as regular charge...
So I wound up getting the 15A MPPT for about $75.00 , in testing everything is fine. Using a single AC Delco Voyager 115AH marine battery. Seems like I can only get it charged to 12.62V, which is approx 92%, which is fine with me. Running some Cfl's now and it's down to 12.58 or 88% give or...