Progress made

We finally got the rainwater collection tank installed. See below:

When full, the 550gallons should weigh about 4,500 lbs (assuming 8.33lbs/gal). Hence we used some 2×12’s left over from the cement forms and some old 6 ft lengths of telephone poles left on the property.

This is first pass at insulation needed to avoid freezing up in the Winter.

The other news is that I got the solar power system from the AltE mail-order place.

In the back are 2ea 48v Lithium Ferro Phosphate batteries. In the front are 16ea 300watt solar panels and the other boxes are the solar power charge controllers, the inverter, misc breakers and layout panels, etc, etc.

Here kitty, kitty… In honor of my visitor of late I purchased one of these. It’s a cheap Muddy trail camera. It’s set up looking at the path the cat came through the other day.

Now we wait to see what we catch.