Day 3685

I woke up at 6:30 and couldn't go back to sleep.  I played games and then got up for pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I went outside to prepare for the coming ice storm.

I set up the heater in the well house.  When I put the light in the pump enclosure I found that the guys that put in the new pump hadn't replaced the insulation.  That began a pain in the ass.  I climbed up into the apartment attic for insulation.  Then I cut it into appropriate pieces and taped it around the well head.  That involved crouching in the enclosure with light rain coming down on my ass.  When I finally go done I put everything away and set up heaters in the apartment and the trailer.  I'll turn them on tomorrow when the freeze starts.

I got back to the house just in time to go to a meeting at the bank.  We stopped at Dutch Bros first.  That made Abby and I very happy.  Abby got to go into the bank with us.  We had a great talk with the people because they weren't busy.  Oh we also got the CD renewed.

I didn't want to go home, so we had an early lunch at the Italian place.  It is an expensive place, but we had a coupon. 

When we got home we watched the weather report.  Apparently it is going to get very cold here starting tomorrow and lasting at least 3 days.  The temps will get below 20 and never get above freezing.  To add to the whole thing freezing rain is almost a certainty.  I hope it isn't a repeat of the ice storm a few years ago where we lost power for days.

I got an email saying there was a Chinese package at the post office.  I drove over to get it.  When I got back I decided to cover the outdoor faucets on the house and apartment with pipe insulation and duct tap.  They look like duct tape dicks.

I opened the Chinese package and put everything away.  They got one item wrong.  Instead of $2 body clips they sent me a $11 set of shocks.  I was OK with that. 

The rest of the afternoon and evening was spent on Aliexpress.  I decided to price out what it would cost me to build a 1/10 flatbed trailer.  I can build one with some parts I have and some I'd buy.  Unfortunately I can't find any ramps, or materials to build them.  I spent hours looking.  Oh well, I'll probably try to look some more somewhere down the line.