8:44 am - Friday - February 20th - TWW - 27° F, humidity 55%, cloud cover 27%, wind 9 mph out of the west.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 38° F. The view this morning.....
.....we got another 3" of snow overnight.....thank goodness most of the snow from Wednesday had melted, or we would have 6-7" of snow on the ground, and would be property bound for another week. On this date in 2018 I was walking to work at the General Store near the east entrance of the Grand Canyon....
.....it had snowed overnight and the temperature was 0° F.
We had enough sunshine Thursday to get all three battery banks back to 100% by early afternoon. The forecast for Thursday was 79% cloud cover so we did run the Predator 5000 for just under an hour until it became obvious the forecast was incorrect, and we would have plenty of sun to charge our battery banks. The high temp for the day was 34° F, and it didn't get there until after lunch. I read in the morning, but around 12 pm I decided to get dressed and do a couple of the indoor activities I have saved for just such a day. Water from the melted snow needed to be moved off the concrete driveway apron, so I used my Toro blower to do the job....to power it I used the Champion generator (7,500 kw) we keep in the garage.
The next indoor project was to service the chainsaws (Stihl 20", Stihl 16" and the small handheld cordless 6" chainsaw.....no brand name....which TLE uses) as they all needed some attention so I brought them over to the trailer where I could watch golf on the TV while I worked. I changed the chain on TLE's handheld 6" chainsaw in about 10 minutes...I have about a dozen of these very small chains, and there are very inexpensive, so I just throw away the dull ones. Next up was the 16" chainsaw which just had a new pull rope installed by Able Saw in Prescott. I was using it to limb up the trees around the chicken coop, and after restarting it just a few times the rope broke again....doh! I thought there must be something inside the rope assembly causing that, so I took it apart. It appeared the new rope was too long, and as I pulled it to start the chainsaw it was rubbing against the metal guide, so I just cut off the excess and put it back together...now it doesn't rub. Finally, the 20" Stihl needed a new chain, and I have two spares, so no issue. One of the two chains needed to be deburred as it had jumped off the 20" bar when it got too loose (my fault) a few weeks ago, so I decided to fix that one, and save the other recently sharpened chain for later. The chain needing deburring was almost brand new when it jumped off the bar. That took about 45 minutes, and by the time I finished it was 3 pm, and time to put things away.
Snow was forecast to begin falling around 6 pm, but it didn't start until almost 8 pm. By the time we awoke this morning we had another 3" of snow on the ground. After dinner we watched some Winter Olympics events....curling, mountaineering, and the women's figure skating finals. In curling the USA narrowly defeated Switzerland 7-6 in 'extra ends' to advance to the semi finals where they will play Switzerland again. In figure skating Alysa Liu became the first American to win the gold in 22 years. Over the history of the Winter Olympics there have been just 8 American women to win gold, so she has joined an exclusive group of American female figure skaters.
That was our Thursday....now we get to watch snowmelt for a few days....lol! Thanks for stopping by!
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