Sculpture Highlights
(and better gate power) To really spice things up, this past November we had the electrical situation out at the...
Electrical
Making the Great Room Great — Step Eight: Wall Lighting
Back when we had the main electric panel redone, we made the call to decommission the monument outlets in the...
Long Lines
So this post is more along the line of a strict documentary for our own purposes than to provide entertainment...
Another Bit of Electricity
Before Shelter In Place, one of the things that I regularly did, especially in the winter months was turn on...
Battery Backup: Hosed
The one casualty of the power wall project was the post that held the reel for a hose we use...
Battery Backup: The Install
As detailed in the previous post, we decide to forgo installing a big diesel generator to provide backup power and...
Battery Backup: Understanding the Pieces
One of the annoying things about living halfway up a mountain is that we do lose power more often than...
Eating things one should not: Power Cords
Continuing the them of the preceding post, living with two large parrots means sometimes things get eaten.... Shoes are a...
No more static
In addition to the race cars built here at Purgatory Auto Works and Dinosaur Farm, we, well really Agent Smith,...
Gate Power (again)
As mentioned in past posts, the main gate at Purgatory has been problematic. Several years ago a tree actually fell...
Getting Things Done
Agent Smith posted a while back about the monument outlets inside and outside the great room and what a mess...
Cooked Water….Heater
Regular readers of the blog will know that last year one of our hot water heaters was on its way...
Fire in the hole
Embedded in the floor of the 'great room' (and also outside, believe it or not) are a plethora of these...
New Project: Utility Closet
As we work our way down the list of things we need to address, the projects have become less dire...
If a tree falls on a power line,
and nothing is connected to that power line.... Suffice to say there was much head scratching all around last week...