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I’d like to buy some used solar panels. It’d be cool if I could get them local. I deleted Facebook so marketplace is not an option. eBay searches for local stuff seem sketch.
Anyone have ideas around the #KC metro or beyond! Or possibly have one or two panels not being used? Looking for 200ish to 400ish watts. Would be ideal to get two that combined equal 500-800.
New path section. Very happy with it so far. 
A few months ago, this area was an impassible tangle of waiawi, puna rose, wild orchid, and other junk.
As I've discovered, putting a path through an area is the first step to bringing it into some semblance of not-overgrown-mess lol.
Plus, I appreciate the metaphorical import of making my own path.
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It's leak check day! It's snowing which means a perfect opportunity to figure out how all the water is getting in!
(But it's snowing which means a perfect opportunity to remain snuggled in this comforter.)
I’m thinking about changing my knitting to make less but use local, sustainable quality yarns. There are so few woollen mills left in Australia and GOR Woolen Mills are doing it off-grid and using local fibre.
#sustainability #offgrid #knitting #FibreArtsFriday
ABC News · No power bill for 10 years for wool mill that switched to renewables
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I also get the feeling that stinging insects will be more of a problem up here as it get swarmer. [sic]
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To my fellow autists out there who are frustrated at the meaninglessness of talking about the weather, remember that to your ancestors, knowledge of the weather probably saved their lives and made you possible.
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Certainly part of this project is to live more "simply" (what a loaded word) and be closer to nature. Rewilding and all that. Unpack my colonialism to discover its downsides and the way it binds me to an unfulfilling life. Connect better to the way my ancestors lived.
Part of that is dealing with the emotions that come. Nature is incredibly destructive... and incredibly close. Nature is far less abstracted, though I'm aware that by having electricity, internet, propane, it *still is* abstracted. I keep imagining building a structure around this little aluminum fort, or some kind of wall or windbreak, but these projects would all be so massive and expensive. And probably not much help.
I thought the single-digit (F) cold would be the worst of it. Spring would come and all would be right. But now there is wind and rain.
The subject of weather is no longer "meaningless small talk." I have to be aware of the weather every day. If not, it makes itself known to me.
A windy day is a whole other thing when you live in a tin can.
One of the biggest missing pieces from my life in this RV is book storage.
My sister has graciously given me a spot of floor for what of my books I was able to bring with me (I left more than half of my collection to an unknown fate – maybe I will never see them again), but it's not easily accessible, and there's no room for *new books*, of which I have just ordered more. I have already read most of the books I brought, so this will be necessary for my goal of reading regularly again.
I'm finding more ability to read out here without my mom's constant dramas. Less brain fog makes it so when I do read, it's not a huge push just to pick up the book knowing I'll fail to get through a page. I can feel excited about books again, after all those years carting my collection around hoping that someday this would happen.
So it's an interesting dilemma. Can I construct a *little* bit more room in here for more books? Probably. But not to the extent I'd like. Moreover, if I ever have to move this thing, weight is a serious consideration. I think I can carry *almost* 1,000 pounds of stuff that is not the trailer itself. Books will use that up very quickly.
(No, I am not looking to be talked into reading e-books or using the library.)
I didn't set out to purposefully learn how soon the rain will be here based on the sound of it coming, but after living here for a while, I can do that.
It's very place-specific. I'm sure that if I went somewhere else with different rain patterns, I'd be way off.
This is my favorite kind of learning: the kind you get just from hanging out with nature long enough. 
This is the foundation of a lot of indigenous knowledge: being in a place, living with it, being a part of its cycles, and gaining that knowledge. Now, multiply that by many many generations of people who purposefully shared that knowledge with the next generation. This is not knowledge that can even be gained in a single generation because some of these cycles span many many many generations. This is the kind of knowledge that enables living with the land. And for those of us in the "modern world" who have been totally cut off from that knowledge, tossed far from where our ancestors lived, think of the disadvantage we have when it comes to starting to live with the land.
This is why it's so important to listen to indigenous folks when it comes to living with the land - because a lot of the rules they've got around how to relate to the land have been hard won over generations, despite hundreds of years of colonizers trying to sever people from ancestral knowledge and sever people from their lands.
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Idea for this PR is to add a network bridge mode for repeaters.
This will let you take multiple LoRa radios, setup meshcore repeater firmware and listen on any number of channels or with different antenna setups and bridge the routing across those different channels with a shared Wifi link(the two dotted white boxes).
I've tested it for a few days and it's pretty amazing to see meshcore automatically finding bridged routes.
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Writing my first meshcore PR 
It's still a work-in progress, but having a lot of fun learning this code base!
GitHubwifi bridge for repeaters by sevenbitbyte · Pull Request #96 · ripplebiz/MeshCore
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I didn't get done what I wanted this weekend, by far, because of the disaster, but I was able to work on other things. It does kinda feel like I just pushed the vegetables around on my plate, which is kind of like what organizing in an RV is like.
(To make a permanent location for one thing requires moving a half dozen other things around. I was prepared for this as a young child by a Sesame Street book where Ernie broke a vase and ends up moving everything in the house to a new container.)
So it doesn't *look* like I did anything, but given that I unexpectedly temporarily lost about 5 cubic feet of storage (that is SO MUCH), I did alright.
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But I clothed, so I get coffee.
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A majority of my clothes were under there, actually. I've got two copies of each of the clothes I wear daily through the winter hanging from hooks over my bed. So two PJs pants and tops, two sweaters, one pair of public pants and a couple of nice shirts, two pair of grimy work pants and long sleeve shirts that I rotate through and wash every month or so. I have a small collection of PJ shirts and misc above-ground in a box I can see, and my underwear and socks in a different box.
The rest of my clothing was under that bench soaking in a fair amount of water for the past two months.
If it hadn't been super cold those months with under-trailer temps ranging from 5-25F, they would've been beyond recovery. So I'm counting myself lucky.
Decay is much closer when you live in an RV in a remote rain forest. I'm always aware that time is coming for me.
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Ok that's done! Now to wait for the second load! 
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I've been watching Project Runway. That's how I know fashion words like "print."