Current Project: Recover from our trip and work on the wife’s college project due Monday.
Status: Our car is packed full of bug infested stuff we brought back with us. The worst of it is in a plastic bag in the driveway. (I didn’t want to leave it in the car and I really didn’t want to bring it into the house.)
Theme: Help the Wife finish her Honors GSU College course with an “A”
Today’s Plans: Let the Wife study, pick up the pieces of our Atlanta home and unpack the car, albeit slowly.
Narrative: We didn’t unpack much from the car, suitcases and CPAP’s last night. (I searched the lining of my suitcase and didn’t find any traces of bugs.) I woke up around 4AM and logged into the 13 cameras that are on the farm to set them in alarm mode. Eight of them record 24/7 and a select eight of the thirteen will send me an E-Mail if something moves in front of them even for a couple hours if the power goes off. I have a really good view of the living room. 
I did remove the stupid logo from the picture after making this post.
Mom asked about how long will the power be on. It took me a minute to figure out what she was asking. I cannot turn off the power to the house or the bumpkin without draining the expansion tanks of the two wells and it would be a royal pain to restart the shallow well if I drained the pump. Because of that no arrangements were made to change the power to the security cameras that are being powered from both meters. The house heater is set to 60 degrees but the trailer (Which still has water pressure) has no power to keep it from freezing. (Although power can be run from a nearby camper power plug in the lawn. Which was the deciding factor in pulling the meter last week.) The wires from the breaker panel to the trailer have a bad underground wire and consumed $40 worth of electric before I cut it off. (It will only get worse if I leave it on.) The toilet in the trailer leaks a little so that should keep enough water flowing for the outside pipes. (The kitchen pipes in the trailer are at risk unless someone opens them if it gets really cold.)
The outside spicket to the water trough in the front pasture is still ON, I’d crack that so it drips when it gets really cold as well. The big water trough in the lower pasture is cut off at the trough. It will leak sufficient water not to freeze, I can’t say the water lines above the dogs will survive though. 🙁 The Bumpkin water is off and cannot be restored without repairing the broken pipe where the two troublesome females were kept. (Between the trees across from the pump room.)
The water heater is on, but there is no heat in the laundry room of the house to keep those pipes from freezing. (There is a brand new heater in that room that can be plugged in if necessary.) I don’t know if setting the HOT water and COLD water dripping will protect those pipes, it should.
The toilet bowl in the office needs some water to keep the sewer smell from backing up into the office. (It was horrible yesterday.)
Please leave the small light in the house living room window on, it draws very little power. The 100W incandescent light in the bumpkin will help keep it dry. There are only two breakers on, one for that light and one for the security cameras. The other two breakers are for the deep well and the barn. (Which both must have power.)
Have to make a run to the post office box, it’s the holidays and the box gets full pretty quickly. I just remembered I left my 50W solar panel in the living room and checking the cameras it’s right where I left it. (Next to the door.) D+M offered to get it, I sent a picture of it and copied R. then she sent me a message without copying D+M offering to pick it up. (I’ll to be very clear who I am talking to and in what tense when I copy someone in on a ongoing conversation.)
D will be taking the garbage off the farm today, there is about 60lbs of fish that’s in the Bumpkin that will get ripe very soon.
D+M have had a busy day, they got my battery chargers that I left on the ground in the middle of the farm and my solar panel I left in the house. The good thing about them being in the buildings today is that they gave us a good test to my security cameras.
D also mounted the two smoke alarms today in grandpa’s house, so that’s done!
I’ve lost one of the cameras on the Bumpkin, there’s no coverage on the North pasture on that side of the fence in front of the Bumpkin anymore. I tried several things and one of them wiped the camera to factory defaults. It was connected to the network over the wireless, the key word is “Was” since it’s not anymore. Apparently we damaged one of the network wires cleaning out that room yesterday and it didn’t affect the camera until after midnight last night. There’s still twelve other cameras to keep track of the land.
We had leftover Chili for dinner and played a game of Scrabble to unwind before bed. Most of the stuff we brought home is still in the car since I worked on the equipment pictures all day.
It looks like a cat has taken refuge on my security system tub in the barn. (It’s probably pretty warm.)
Pi News: I bought two new Pi’s while I was in Fl but I didn’t have the Micro SD cards for them. The one Micro SD card I had would not run the Pi. I tried one more time using my Netbook to SD Format the card and load NOOBS, but the Pi flashed the red LED at me saying nope, sorry…
https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647
From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering:
post hole digger
