Happy Saturday morning! We have a super sunshiny day here. 44° seems chilly after yesterday’s start at 60°. I hope everyone has good plans for the weekend.
Good morning on this beautiful cloud covered day. Currently a comfortable thirty five degrees with winter weather advisory indicating snow for incoming days.
No rain here (maybe next week, some more is in our forecast), but fires seem to be mostly out. Now for the cleanup and recovery. 😦
Distressing to see the plane crashes this past week.
Work has been busy. Taking a friend on an errand today and we’ll grab lunch out, I still also need to make a pharmacy run later today.
Abby’s still sweet, one of the sweetest big dogs I’ve had (and I’ve been blessed with some standouts in that category).
Neighbors’ black-and-white cat who visits my front porch really wants to come inside my house now, but I’m not letting her … as much as I really would like to have her come in … 😦 I miss having a cat.
Dj, maybe she will someday be your cat. A neighbor who loved our cat, Tiger, an outdoor cat, adopted him when I had our son. She asked and I said yes. She was a single lady who worked in a large hospital in HR. She had more time than I had with a new baby and two sets of elderly parents to help look after. The cat escaped the sandwich generation. I knew he would be in an excellent home two doors away.
I received our extravagant heating bill for all that long cold stretch. The biggest utility bill I have ever seen in 40 years in this home. $480.00! It was between 1-200 the previous month. I told myself it was worth it to not have frozen broken pipes. Now to hear how much the bill was for Art’s office.
Michelle, what a sweet story, brought tears to my eyes. Animals do have a special sense … I always talk to LiLu but she’s been shy about coming close so I was surprised when I briefly opened the front door the other night and there she was, ready to come inside …
Janice, my gas/heating bill wasn’t that high but high enough; and the Water & electric power bill for 2 months just arrived, that was $340. Now that also/almost brought tears to my eyes.
Our electrical costs are going through the roof. The shutting down of fossil fuels has led to increased costs and unless people vote out those insisting on unrealistic goals, I see no change in that. Those on fixed incomes or low incomes will suffer.
After all these years, the energy expert broke down and we now have solar panels on the roof. He doesn’t think it will make a big difference in our electrical bill–we’ve already done everything needed to lower it.
But, the real game-changer was the Tesla battery for an uninterupted power supply. Now we don’t have to worry about losing power (which is not a big deal if you’re in your house with GAS appliances, but still . . . )
His new hobby is checking his phone to see what the panels are doing . . . Sigh.
Caldwell, Idaho made us remove our passive solar panels from our roof (in place and functioning fine when we bought the place four years earlier) back in about ‘ninety six.
Good morning, all. A beautiful cloud covered twenty nine degrees here. Snow expected.
If solar panels do not save you money in sunny California, where would they? Mumsee, why did they make you remove them? Another question I have is if the panels are separately insured from your home or would they be covered under your home insurance? I do know people with them on buildings or houses here, but they only save anything with the steep rebates given by the government (or us, as the case is).
Sorry, Kathaleena, husband has been quite ill since returning from church so I have asked him that question. I thought it very strange at the time. Maybe a neighbor complained.
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Happy Saturday morning! We have a super sunshiny day here. 44° seems chilly after yesterday’s start at 60°. I hope everyone has good plans for the weekend.
Miss Bosley says to tell Gemma M’hello!
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Good morning on this beautiful cloud covered day. Currently a comfortable thirty five degrees with winter weather advisory indicating snow for incoming days.
mumsee
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windy with high clouds. Next week looks beautiful
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lots of rain here
jo
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No rain here (maybe next week, some more is in our forecast), but fires seem to be mostly out. Now for the cleanup and recovery. 😦
Distressing to see the plane crashes this past week.
Work has been busy. Taking a friend on an errand today and we’ll grab lunch out, I still also need to make a pharmacy run later today.
Abby’s still sweet, one of the sweetest big dogs I’ve had (and I’ve been blessed with some standouts in that category).
Neighbors’ black-and-white cat who visits my front porch really wants to come inside my house now, but I’m not letting her … as much as I really would like to have her come in … 😦 I miss having a cat.
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Dj, maybe she will someday be your cat. A neighbor who loved our cat, Tiger, an outdoor cat, adopted him when I had our son. She asked and I said yes. She was a single lady who worked in a large hospital in HR. She had more time than I had with a new baby and two sets of elderly parents to help look after. The cat escaped the sandwich generation. I knew he would be in an excellent home two doors away.
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Just share her. Unbeknownst to me, that’s what I was doing. 🙂
https://www.michelleule.com/2022/08/23/comfort-cat/
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Reminds me of a book called The Old Man and the Afternoon Cat. My children used to love that book.
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Such a sweet cat story♡
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I received our extravagant heating bill for all that long cold stretch. The biggest utility bill I have ever seen in 40 years in this home. $480.00! It was between 1-200 the previous month. I told myself it was worth it to not have frozen broken pipes. Now to hear how much the bill was for Art’s office.
🙂 Praising God that it wasn’t worse!
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Michelle, what a sweet story, brought tears to my eyes. Animals do have a special sense … I always talk to LiLu but she’s been shy about coming close so I was surprised when I briefly opened the front door the other night and there she was, ready to come inside …
Janice, my gas/heating bill wasn’t that high but high enough; and the Water & electric power bill for 2 months just arrived, that was $340. Now that also/almost brought tears to my eyes.
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Did I mention the grandchildren visit this weekend was canceled?
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we have now had as many rainy days in February as we had in January
Jo
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So sorry to hear that, Mumsee.
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I did a sad sigh in hearing that, Mumsee.
I asked Art about his commercial power bill. $950. Ouchers!!!
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That is sad, mumsee. Just wrong and evil.
Our electrical costs are going through the roof. The shutting down of fossil fuels has led to increased costs and unless people vote out those insisting on unrealistic goals, I see no change in that. Those on fixed incomes or low incomes will suffer.
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After all these years, the energy expert broke down and we now have solar panels on the roof. He doesn’t think it will make a big difference in our electrical bill–we’ve already done everything needed to lower it.
But, the real game-changer was the Tesla battery for an uninterupted power supply. Now we don’t have to worry about losing power (which is not a big deal if you’re in your house with GAS appliances, but still . . . )
His new hobby is checking his phone to see what the panels are doing . . . Sigh.
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Caldwell, Idaho made us remove our passive solar panels from our roof (in place and functioning fine when we bought the place four years earlier) back in about ‘ninety six.
Good morning, all. A beautiful cloud covered twenty nine degrees here. Snow expected.
mumsee
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If solar panels do not save you money in sunny California, where would they? Mumsee, why did they make you remove them? Another question I have is if the panels are separately insured from your home or would they be covered under your home insurance? I do know people with them on buildings or houses here, but they only save anything with the steep rebates given by the government (or us, as the case is).
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We don’t own them, the company who put them up does, so I don’t know about insurance.
For all-electric houses, yes, in California, they would save you a lot of money or if, say, you had a swimming pool with a heater.
A large household running many appliances would benefit. All our appliances are either gas or energy efficient, and that includes our heat.
However, if you live, like we do, where P, G, and E can and often will turn off the electricity, having a backup system is helpful.
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Sorry, Kathaleena, husband has been quite ill since returning from church so I have asked him that question. I thought it very strange at the time. Maybe a neighbor complained.
mumsee
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