Freedom wins.....

6:34 am - Wednesday - November 6th - TWW  - 30° F, humidity 43%, wind 13 mph out of the northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 49° F. On this date in 2015 we were boondocking on the shores of Mono Lake near Lee Vining, CA....

How things looked on Saturday, November 6th....warm, and sunny

The next morning it was still clear, but 17° F

....we had planned to boondock there for a week, but along with the suddenly frigid temps, we had an electrical issue with our 50 amp plug melting, and couldn't get our onboard generator started to charge our house batteries, so we packed up and headed for lower elevation in Bishop, CA where we made repairs.

We had two goals Tuesday.....1) chop more wood using the new chainsaws, and 2) begin assembling our new wind generator, and we were successful!  Those new chainsaws are amazing, and even better than I had hoped.  It was like cutting warm butter with a hot knife.  In short order, maybe 90 minutes, we had added a significant amount of wood to our wood pile, which is for general use, and to the pile for the wood stove in the house.....

TLE working on the wood stove kindling

The amazing hydraulic wood splitter worked like a charm

We more than doubled the split wood supply...there are enough deadfalls around the property to keep us in firewood for three years, maybe more

Ready to heat the house!

....next up I turned my attention to beginning to assemble the wind generator fan blades, and the mast upon which the generator will reside....

This is one section of the mast pole, is about 10' long.  The pipe laying next to it will extend it to almost 20' off the ground 

The wind generator controller...can be wired for 12 v, 24 v, or 48 v.....I wired it for 12 v

The wind generator to which the fan blades will be attached once the mast is raised is now mounted via 4 heavy duty bolts

.....I finished mounting the wind generator to the mast pole around 3:30 pm, and I was tired....another longish work day, but oh so rewarding.  Once I receive the cabling (ordered from Amazon), and guy wire kit on Wednesday I can complete the installation of the wind generator, and then turn my attention to setting up the new solar array.

After dinner TLE and I watched the election returns kind of holding our breath in anticipation of the outcome.  TLE went to bed around 10 pm, but I stayed the course, and by 11:30 pm we had the results, which made us very happy, and apparently more than half of the American population, as well.  I'm sure some of you are not happy.  Regardless of what horse you backed, we need to face the fact that we are all Americans, and even though we may disagree on politics, we have more that unites us than separates us.  Politics is not real life.  We stopped watching the 'news' years ago, which has led to a level of happiness, and contentment we had not known for years.  The people inside the Beltway, and the mainstream media only care about themselves, power and money.  That is why they hate last night's winner....he is an outsider, and doesn't play their games.  He won with an amazingly broad coalition....he is not some right wing extremist.  He didn't take a paycheck the last time he was President, and left office poorer than when he went in....still rich, but worth a couple of billion less.  What politician in either party can say that?  At any rate, it is time to heal the gigantic rift in the country created by those within the Beltway, and mainstream media, who have pitted us against each other to distract from their failures, and their lurch toward totalitarianism.  All governments tend towards totalitarianism, and that is what our founding fathers feared, and tried to delay as long as possible when they wrote our Constitution.  'We the people' have allowed this to happen, it is our fault, and it is time to repudiate those within the Beltway, and mainstream media in order to reclaim our slowly eroded freedoms.  We all have an interest in what happens now.

Thanks for stopping by, and God Bless America!