It was going to be a warm day, so I put some watering sprinklers on.
I put this frog sprinkler on a cherry tree.
Cherries
And then I stuffed a bunch of cherries into me.
Power out
The power went out. It seems our power company has a monitor on their lines that tell them when a limb falls across the lines and shuts the line down until they clear it. It’s to prevent forest fires and they just put it in place this fire season. This is the third one we’ve had in about a week, so it seems the power system is no longer a reliable source of power.
Anyway, this chopper flew by checking the power lines by our houses. Living in a forest, it seems we our going to have quit a few outages.
The power came on shortly after the chopper went by.
Tom’s Skiddy lesson
Tom’s been wanting a lesson on running Skiddy so when he came by I got him in the machine and went through what all the buttons and joysticks do and how things work. He practiced a bit in the yard and seems to be getting the hang of it.
Tom’s electrical
Then we went over to his place and looked at some electrical stuff he’s working on. I just had to give him some advice on how to do it.
More water
I watered my avocado trees and then these citrus trees.
Van work
I’m trying to organize some kind of storage in the van so I’m studying things to figure out what to do. I think some plastic storage containers might help out the problem. I took measurements of each space in the van where I could put boxes. Now I need to shop for something that will serve the purpose.
Puttering
I spent a good part of the day just puttering around the yard, pruning back berry vines and tidying up here and there.
So, which would you rather have, occasional power outages, or have a forest fire burn you out? What they have probably done is bypassed the “reclosers”, which ordinarily will try to restore power if there is a momentary problem caused by a limb or something touching the lines. A lot of times the problem is transitory and the “recloser” turns the juice back on and all is well. It will try a couple of times, and if the problem persists, will then shut everything off. With the high fire danger in the summer, they have adjusted them to turn everything off the first time there is a fault.
It takes a while to turn things back on as all the lines controlled by that “recloser” need to be patrolled for what caused the original fault, make repairs if necessary, and then turn things back on. When available, they use helicopters for patrolling, as it is quicker.
Now, if you don’t like this, then maybe you would like our great state government to take over the power system. Think how much you like dealing with, say the DMV, before you go down this route. Myself, I have a 13kw generator that comes on automatically when one of these happens.
Hi Kenny,
I think I’d rather have the forest fires as they are not likely to burn me out. Fact is, I had a blast riding around helping out on the last forest fire. :O)
Oh, realisticly, I wasn’t ranting about the power, but just stating a fact. We do have a generator but it’s not automatic. Just goes to show you what I was stating, that’s why we now need our own generators.
For years the power system has worked without these percoustions without too many big forest fires from the power stuff. So what has changed? Liablity and California’s not managing their forests?
Bob
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Header Pictures
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
So, which would you rather have, occasional power outages, or have a forest fire burn you out? What they have probably done is bypassed the “reclosers”, which ordinarily will try to restore power if there is a momentary problem caused by a limb or something touching the lines. A lot of times the problem is transitory and the “recloser” turns the juice back on and all is well. It will try a couple of times, and if the problem persists, will then shut everything off. With the high fire danger in the summer, they have adjusted them to turn everything off the first time there is a fault.
It takes a while to turn things back on as all the lines controlled by that “recloser” need to be patrolled for what caused the original fault, make repairs if necessary, and then turn things back on. When available, they use helicopters for patrolling, as it is quicker.
Now, if you don’t like this, then maybe you would like our great state government to take over the power system. Think how much you like dealing with, say the DMV, before you go down this route. Myself, I have a 13kw generator that comes on automatically when one of these happens.
Hi Kenny,
I think I’d rather have the forest fires as they are not likely to burn me out. Fact is, I had a blast riding around helping out on the last forest fire. :O)
Oh, realisticly, I wasn’t ranting about the power, but just stating a fact. We do have a generator but it’s not automatic. Just goes to show you what I was stating, that’s why we now need our own generators.
For years the power system has worked without these percoustions without too many big forest fires from the power stuff. So what has changed? Liablity and California’s not managing their forests?
Bob