03-06-2026 — Life springs forward

Howdy all. This week the weather went from low teens on Monday, to, it may hit 60, today (Friday). Lots of rain throughout the period. The good news is…

The little pile of snow on Tuesday,,,

Shrank to this on Wednesday,,, and

Was gone on Thursday.

Quite brown and wet out there yesterday.

The beginning of sunshine?

The weather, over the next week, has no forecasted teens, and only one day that may not get above freezing. Is this the start of spring?

We do “spring forward” on Sunday morning to Daylight Saving Time. Um, it means when I get up at 7, the clock will say 8, and I will have missed the first hour of sun on that day, and every one until Fall.

Glad to see no rain for next Tuesday.

That is the day the Electrician will be here to install all of the conduit and wires and inlet/outlets for the battery backup. Looking forward to that. Once that is working, I’ll push the HVAC company to try and make the furnace / air vents work with the UPS so I’ll be doubly safe in an outage.

Phew.  It is now 1:30 in the afternoon and I just got lucky again.  I can’t remember last time I started the truck.  The battery was beyond low and lower.  It actually had reset lots of the settings because of the lack of charge.  

I started it up and then ran it outside as i rinsed off some of the salt, using the hose connected to both hot and cold water — nice and warm.  Alexa said it was 60 out there, when I went out.  The truck however, says it is 41 now, an hour later.  I think the truck is right.  Just looked and yeah the thermometer in the little greenhouse says it is 43 and the one on the raised bed on the black tarp out back says it is 45.  Both of them are always warmer than the air temperature.  

Also just checked and the last time I drove truck was to the dentist on 2/5/2026.  So, for four weeks it has sat in the garage in well below freezing temperatures, most of the time.  

I got lucky!!! I need to remember to run it once every other week to recharge. It is running some more now. The monitor said the battery was just under 12.6 volts. I’d like it to be a little higher before sitting about some more.

I was talking with a friend from my old working life at Office Depot. Seems they are going through another purge cycle. This is after the one earlier this year where they got rid of some V.P.s. This time looks like a lot of Sr. Director levels got hammered. Just like every purge, some good people/workers got dropped along with the so-called “fat”, while a few useless blobs of questionable humanity, are kept.

For the few good guys/gals left, please do Enjoy Life