So much for my easy peasy solar dream. Sigh. So many answers were only a phone call away. Which I made today because I was looking for another electrician to do the work of tying the solar trailer into the house and grid. I ended up with Dan Lewis who works out of Penn Yan. Here is what he told me.

He built the trailer. 10 or so years ago. And it was good for what it was. A mobile power station. But, as it stands today, it is not ready to be attached to the grid. It would need new inverters. And the batteries, he thought, were nearing their end of life. So, that isn’t good. He also said that it would be better to build something new from scratch. He suggested solar on the roof (which would mean I would have to have a new roof) since getting a variance to put solar in my yard probably wouldn’t be approved. That isn’t going to stop me from exploring it. I mean, I do live in a mixed use zone – so maybe the variance wouldn’t be impossible to get. He suggested 18 solar panels and 15kw of storage. At first he didn’t include the storage. Bottom line ball park without the batteries was $13k. With the batteries, around $20k. Sigh. Maybe solar isn’t in my future after all.

This means that I am not going to buy the solar trailer since it is useless to me. That sucks.

It has been quite a busy day for me, despite getting up and out late. First off, picked AD up and took him to Staples so he could work on a project there. Then I went to Mavis Tires and set up an appointment to get a new set of four tires. Tires are expensive. And I am getting the least expensive ones I can. One, because I hate spending money on tires. Two, because I plan on trading in this car for a new one come the Winter. I am thinking November or December.

Back home, I finally got the spring reattached on the outer porch door. I don’t remember why it wasn’t still installed. But maybe that will help my boarder to shut the door going forward. Reattaching it was a lot harder than I thought it would be.

After my apple turnover for lunch, I returned my cans and headed to Lowes to get new bulbs for the kitchen fixture. Pricey little things at $13 a piece. I got them back home and installed them and voila! The fixture still didn’t work. So I am pretty sure that the fixture is dead. And I might as well replace it. I saw two and have asked JM to let me know which one he thinks I ought to go with.

I also wandered out into the yard and spread the little container of wildflower seeds around. I doubt anything will come from that. But if something does, yay!

Oh, books. I am reading one of the books that SM passed along to me. I am not impressed. It is a book of short stories that are, frankly, not all that great. Little slice of life stories. Good enough in their way, but nothing really impressive. So far.

And, I came up with a way to “read” the seventh book of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I joined Audible for free for three months. And I got a credit to buy one book from them. And guess which one I bought? That’s right, book Seven, This Inevitable Ruin. So excited. I have already started listening to it! It isn’t as fast as reading it would be, but it is enjoyable. Especially because the narrator is doing voices for all the characters!

Flers

And there we have it. Quite a day. I am ready for some food. I am going to go to Ling Ling and get a container of food from the buffet. And then have an eggroll from home. And rice. So excited!