Good morning. Welcome to another session of talk about fixing and fixing-up our homes, where we share experience and advice in hopes of empowering Kossaks to Do-It-Themselves. It's hard to be an activist when a dripping faucet keeps you awake all night, eh?
Here on the high desert of New Mexico, just west of the Pecos, we have changed from "keep the house cool" mode to "warm the house up" in the past week, as the long hot Summer abruptly changes to Autumn. Open up the house during the day while it is warm outside, and close it up at night to keep it warm as the night temps drop down to the low 50s and high 40s.
At some point it will cool down enough to actually need to light a fire in the woodstove, but generally not until November. The mass of our adobe walls holds many BTUs of energy, which keeps us comfortable despite daily outside temperature swings of 30 - 40 degrees. Thermal mass is the "battery" that stores the solar energy that shines down, free for the taking.
Next weekend I will be in San Francisco to attend the memorial service for founding digger Peter Berg and re-unite with many of my colleagues from that era more then 40 years ago. I will be having dinner with the such San Francisco area Kossaks that care to join us, Sunday night, thanks to the organizational skills of our lovely Kossak navajo. Check with her on time and place, as that has not been determined, last I heard. My daughter Clane, who is back living in her native city, will jin us. Hope to see some of you there.
Regular SMHRBer boatgeek will be hosting SMHRB next week, with my gratitude.
I'm going to change the oil on two cars today, and see about getting those onions harvested.
Thanks for dropping by.