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microchick said:
Happy Monday, everyone.

Cap, the quilt looks great. Are you going to machine quilt it or quilt by hand?

I spent much of the weekend relaxing and doing nothing. Quite a treat for me. Weather stinks. It was -3 when I got up this morning and we had about an inch of snow yesterday with another expected on Thursday. I mean, I understand the solar minimum and blah blah blah but enough of this winter crappola already!

Other than complaining about the weather, I set and worked on the embroidered quilt squares that I need for my Farm Folk Art quilt. I almost have #7 done and need 13 or 14 for one pattern or 16 if I do the original pattern for the quilt. Pictures at some point.

On the chicken front, Dealing with a mean rooster at the moment. He isn't mean to me but he is tough on the other roosters. Most have a pecking order worked out and are no problem. This guy like to beat everyone up. I have him in a pen right now and his latest victim with a nasty eye wound where a gash was opened between eye and beak.

Question is, do I send the bad boy off to freezer camp or turn him loose and let the bantam gang of thugs adjust his attitude. Decisions decisions.

Otherwise I spent time yesterday and Saturday on the radio. There were contact contests going on all weekend. That's where a HAM operator sets all day saying CQ and asking for contacts with the goal to see how many contacts you can get in 24 or in this case 72 hours. Not for me although I have been known to answer calls as has DH. I like to talk but not for 24 hours straight. Still it's fun to listen to especially when you hear foreign stations.

I got a new caller ID for my HAM license. I'm officiall N0BEX now. As my real name is Becky, DH pinned the nickname Bex on me when we met. I told him that I hear No Bex so many times I might as well run with it. You know, can I get turkeys? No Bex, Can I get a few goats, No Bex, Can I get a horse? No Bex.:lau so N0BEX it is.

Hope ya'all have a good Monday. Or it's as painless as possible.

@perchie.girl, you should try my diet. Trust me, the last thing you would be thinking about is food.:sick
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I almost always hand quilt. Right now i am sewing curtains.
 
superchemicalgirl said:
Been thinking about a windmill here. Solar panels don't work so well in the north woods, but we always have wind.
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they make small ones for boats all the way up to thirty footers for the DIY people.

I want an omni-directional one with the vertical blades so that no matter where the wind comes from it will function. Most of em are designed for 30 mp air speed max. and will shut down if it goes faster than the recommended operating speed.

Then the big expence is the storage to allow you to have power even if the wind doesnt blow. Anything over that can be fed back to the power company causing the meter to run backwards...

Those batteries are expensive... but Can be added to as you can afford them.

deb

Vertical wind generator


there are more and this is not the only design.... I would build the riser up so moving components are at least eight feet up... for safety.
 

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