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WEEK 42 2021
Last Week- Sun- Mon- Tue- Wed- Thur- Fri- Sat- Next Week
Saturday - Decent enough, but they are predicting another, lesser, windstorm - and some cool temperatures.
There was a report that they've found the wreck of the famous Coast Guard Cutter Bear. The pictures are pretty definite proof, she had some distinctive bow re-inforcements. My grandfather, who served on both the USCGC Aurora and the USCGC Northland, had a belaying pin from her, I believe my brother Bob has it now.
Went out in the morning and put a little metal bar across part of the fence near the house, to keep the dogs from going under the chain link.
Took R&S to lunch, my treat, down at Mahli's in Palmdale. It's R's birthday, and Friday was his last day at NASA, after 37 years. I told him he'll be busier than ever.
Friday - Decent weather. Anything under 90 is welcome!
Still messing with Medicare stuff. I think it's mostly done though.
Thursday -Nice enough.
William Shatner did a trip to near space on Blue Origin yesterday. At 90! Kudo's to him!!
Wednesday - A nice day, not even windy.
I went out and watered the tomato bushes, but they are so far gone that it's really a waste of time. Next year: new straw bales!
Not much else going on, feeling a bit tired after the exertions of the last couple of days.
I did put upright the wall downed in the windstorm upright, and removed
the guy's for NW winds. For now I left the stakes in the ground, with
blocks over them so as to help avoid tripping.
Book #57 was Strike The Blood (#19, The Eternal Banquet), by Gakuto Mikomo.
Tuesday - Pleasant.
I went out and cleaned up a bit after our windstorm.
I also too the big window unit out of the front room. I wasn't going to, until the end of the month, but while vacuuming there was so much dust and dirt that it really needed coming out. I had help from the neighbors son P - we just put it in the garage for now, since I need to make space in the container before putting it in there. Of course, if things turn out like last year, it will never get that far.
After that I vacuumed and filled gaps around the window - backer rod for the big gaps and window screen spline for the smaller gaps.
In theory there was a decent chance for astronomy, but I was too tired.
S took R to the Star Trek exhibit at the Skirball Center down
below. Apparently it was almost empty at opening time, so he had all
the excellent exhibits to himself for a bit. Sounds really cool.
Monday - Windy as heck. In the end there were sustained winds from the N-NW at 46mph at the airport, gusting to 55mph. It seems to me, though I have no proof, that the winds are a bit higher here to the northwest of the airport.
The usual part of the fence blew down, but I don't think it hit 70mph.
BTW the Weather Underground site says they are discontinuing their hosting of images for personal weather stations because it's too had. Which is a total lie, what could be simpler that a server with images linked to the personal weather station. No, they are just being cheap, dropping the little 'extra' that helped make them what they are today, now that they are a big, corporate, dog.
Ah well, that's the way it goes. I never used it myself, and only viewed a few sites that had it working, but it's the way of the increasingly corporate penny-pinching world.
Did some wind proofing around the windows in the master bedroom. Basically I used backer rod to fill in larger gaps at the top and bottom of each window, but the gaps at the side were too small even for 1/4" foam. After a bit it occurred to me that I had some window screen spline left over from earlier in the year. It is rubber, with a hollow core, and about 1/8" - perfect for the gaps at the side.This really helped a LOT. There is still some draft, but it's from the gap between the prefab window units. I've been meaning to fix that for a while, too.
This worked well enough that I continued the same task in the west bedroom.
As well as cutting drafts and dirt intrusion it makes things a lot quieter.
Not quiet enough, sadly, that I can't hear the dog down the street, going off every couple of minutes, for hours on end during the night...
I didn't get to working on the app,.
Sunday - Warm, pleasant in the morning.
I did the usual grocery shopping with S, at WinCo and the 99 Cent Store.
I bought another propane tank at Lowe's, a Worthington 100# unit. Actually cheaper than it would have been online, and I know that it's really a Worthington and not an AKO ("Amazon Knock-Off") too. Now I need to fill it.
The afternoon was spent doing a few more preps for the windstorm.
