When we upgraded our off-the-grid power system (see Power Shift: The Plan in Place) I also took the time to upgrade our documentation.
Handling documentation slowed progress on the upgrade significantly. If you read back through the Power Shift essays, you’ll see a lot of references to searching for system specs, redrawing diagrams, and recalculating figures that should have been written down in the past.
The Power Manual (Photo: Mark A. Zeiger).
Slowly but surely, I’m cutting the coming winter’s firewood. Most of my current effort focuses on the far end of the property, in “the Blowdown” where I recently felled a couple of standing dead trees (see A Little Excitement in the Wood Lot). I’m bucking these into 18″ rounds, splitting and stacking them to dry in the forest. At the end of each work session, I strap a split round to my backboard and haul it home to dry on the beach.
She just told me it’s time to go home (Photo: Michelle L. Zeiger).
