I’ve finally created the photo gallery and a video montage from a week of skiing earlier in March with Jon, Tom, Bill and Brin in Utah:
Big Tree Down
I heard a big crash last night… turns out it was a big pine tree. Happily it fell downslope away from the house!
Gorillas Grooming Tourist
Wow, amazing experience!
Settling In
Pan and Hera seem to have settled in well to my new home in the hills above Santa Cruz:
They did say "free energy"
Yay! PG&E finally came out and installed my new meter last week so I’ve now got net metering going — I’m finally getting credit for all these thousands of watts I’m generating! Until now, all I could do was to charge my car during daylight hours to at least use some of it.
I also like how SunPower has yet to ask for any payment. Haven’t paid a dime. Talk about free energy! ;-)
More Bobcat
Pan and Hera are my little wildlife spotters. I’ve got to go look whenever I see something has their attention. A couple of weeks after the previous bobcat visit, I notice Pan intensely watching something from the porch.
It’s another bobcat! Cool!
It’s clearly a different one from given the different markings along its side. And smaller too:
Bobcat in the Yard
… that is, until a buck drove him off. No, really!
I was just letting Hera and Pan out when I see…. oh, a bobcat. Huh. No guys, back inside. No, I mean it. Hey, Hera… come back here — no, I don’t think he would be a good friend for you…
And then I see the young buck. Huh. The buck is facing the bobcat down, making him back away. And he continues to drive him off and down the dirt road, out of sight.
Sorry Pan, sorry Hera, gotta go and you’re staying inside today!
Yeah, yeah… the fence/cat enclosure around the porch is due to go up in a few weeks. Hey, good thing I’ve got guard deer though in the meantime, eh?
More power, Scotty!
The sun is starting to get higher in the sky these days – now getting over 6000 watts at a time and 32 kWh for the day! Woot!!