Solar...

It is dry. Not as dry as last summer but dry all the same.

I had my baby girl the end of June so now I'm in the healing stages. Though I'm pretty healed up already, I always push myself a little too hard.

Now onto solar... we bit the bullet and bought a 1 kW solar panel. We had to buy a solar charge controller as well. No home panel manufacturing this time, no time available for it. I've too many other building projects pending. But we spent a day hacking it together so it could be used while getting it's permanent location ready. So for the first time in nearly 4 years I have continuous power and refrigeration. The refrigerator is a big deal due to our dairy production and is what accelerated the purchase after the 3 generator deaths in a 3 month period.

Finally, my boys and I had a building project... making a solar oven. We used a styrofoam cooler as our box and lined it with aluminum foil. It works to heat water and can reheat food but not super good for actual cooking. It needs a little help yet.