Community Team

Still trying to make a little headway with folks on Next Door. It's quite true that solar panels are expensive. It's also true that PG&E is trying it's best to kill solar installations. But none the less, we live in the land of sunshine. Come on folks!!

The garden is never done. I actually have two more specific gardens to create, but I have to start over in Next Door when the time comes!

I don't know that going "all electric" can be referred to as "diversifying my energy supply". But we didn't want gas of any kind up here in the country, so we ditched propane. Down in town, at the rental, we also ditched natural gas, and the renters have a heat pump water heater.

A question I need to do a deeper dive into: I've over-panelled my house with solar (because the roof configuration isn't ideal). Should I now spend even more money to insulate the open-beamed roof, since I'm heating the house with "free" sunshine power? We bought the house for the beauty of the vaulted ceiling, but it is not insulated.

went after the gophers today. The bobcats and hawks that hunt the field next door love a free gopher.

Hydronic floors run by an electric heat pump. Took out the old propane furnace. How DELICIOUS not to have forced air blowing around people with allergies!!!!!

Took out the wood stove which ate up a huge corner of the living space, and in stalled hydronic flooring instead.

We moved. Which means we had to do a lot of work on the new (broken) house. New 50 year roof. New solar. Whole house battery.

Joining this for the rest of the year.

My aha moment is walking with my kids in a forest and my daughter picking up trash that people had left behind. It made me think about what I am leaving behind for them and I want to do better.