Here comes the sun on this Saturday ☀️

Fairly early this morning, I cleaned off the solar panel on the truck the best I could though it was still encrusted with ice but the warmth of mid-day sun when it came out plus some warm water and vinger got the rest of the ice off it. Now the accessory batteries are being topped and the starting battery should be awoken from it’s sagging slumber with a nice tickle charge by evening.

Brought the bike out and got tire nice and hard 🚲 using the electric pump on the truck. I should buy – or more likely rig up something – so I can use that pump indoors as I mostly use it for topping off the bike tire then ever the truck tire, as it’s much too slow for such purposes.

Going to go to Five Rivers this afternoon, 🐸 I’ll bring my hunting boots 👢 and put them on once I get out there for hiking in the still fairly deep snow. It’s nice afternoon with the sunshine, ☀️ but it’s still winter with snow and cold, but fortunately no wind.

This morning, I’ve been reading more about home wiring 🔌 and duck farming, 🦆 just because those are interesting topics I should learn more about. Breakfast was cranberry pancakes, 🥞 with all the usual stuff I put in my homemade mix, you know, whole-wheat flour, oatmeal, carrots, etc. 🥕 Lunch was onions with eggs, garlic powder, and frozen corn. Dinner last night, was more of that frozen salmon 🐟 with onions and spinach.

Today It’s winter and a weekend I’m home, so nothing too ambitious. ❄️ At least with the sun and warmer weather I haven’t felt the need to use the space heater or the heating pad, so that saves. I do need to take apart the control module on my electric blanket to see why the switch is requiring multiple clicks to turn on. Maybe I can bypass the switch or fix it.

Mom is still sick 🤒 so no visiting them this week. I should have enough laundry for a few work days, I will go down to Hannaford on Sunday to get bananas and maybe some more frozen fruit and vegetables. My pantry is otherwise in decent shape, Tuesday I might drive in not as much for groceries but so I can drop my laundry off at laundromat after work and do it. Maybe I do the Glenmont Laundromat that kind of sucks 👖 and do Walmart at the same time. I don’t know.

Monday will be cold for riding in 🚲 but I think that’s what I want to do as it will be sunny. Probably be stuck riding Corning’s Hill, which isn’t my favorite, though it’s a blast coming down the hill, and the shoulder is nice and wide on the Delmar bypass. That’s the morning I want to have fresh bread made for, and maybe I’ll also do the pea soup then. Or maybe pea soup tomorrow. Still have a fair amount of beans in the freezer.