Wandering Thoughts of a Writer: #solarpanels

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Last month I bought a video editing program so I could edit my videos and share them on our YouTube channel—when we get our channel—but I’m having problems figuring out how to edit part of the video without editing out the whole section.

It’s a pain in the ass, but I’m not giving up.

I will master this.

Every expert was once a beginner.

So, I will continue to practice with this program, because it’s not the program. It’s me.

I’m not a techy by any means. Therefore, I ask for help when I need it.

There’s no shame in asking for help.

Anyway, this morning, I wrote a blog post and tried to upload the video I was talking about to share it with you, but for some reason it wouldn’t load. I think the file is too big.

I don’t know, but I’ll figure it out later.

. . . So enough about the video upload fail. Let’s move on to the good news.

Remember what I told you last week about the disaster we had while working on our RV? If not, you can read the post here. http://themusingwriter.blogspot.com/2018/07/rv-renovation-huge-bleeping-mess.html

We had to buy another battery, which cost us $130.00. Kevin did that last Monday.

Yesterday, we decided it was too hot and humid—not to mention the mosquitoes were out—to work on the RV. Kevin also needed help to rewire everything again.

Around three in the afternoon, the dude (I’ll call him Sam) Kevin had hired last weekend, who accidentally drilled the hole in our battery which created a disaster, and they had to undo all of the work they’d done that day, showed up at our doorstep.

Yeah, we were totally surprised.

Long story short, Sam came through for us. He rewired everything.

We have SOLAR POWER!!!

Last night around 11:00 o’clock, Kevin and I had a nightcap in our RV.

We had tunes and light without being hooked up to the power grid.

It was all solar, baby!

All-natural energy from the sun.

That rocks!!!

We’re making progress.

Next is figuring out our furnace problem, the water heater, recharging the a/c, and getting a three-way refrigerator.

If anyone knows where we can get a three-way refrigerator for a good price, let me know.

Have a good week.

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The solar panels are installed!

We took the week of June 25^th off to install our solar panels.

Of course, it didn’t take a week to do.

. . . But the weather was atrocious, so we had to wait until the humidity wasn’t so high and the temp. bearable.

Wednesday morning was when Kevin installed them.

I had to tie a rope to the back of each one so Kevin could hoist it up on top of the roof.

Do you notice the covers on them?

We didn’t want the sun on the panels until they were installed.

After Kevin placed the panels where he wanted them to be, he got busy mounting them.

He made a mistake, though.

He had mounted one of the panels close to the edge of the roof to prevent us from having to walk there.

Vertigo tends to mess with us.

. . . But what ended up happening was the wires from the other panels wouldn’t reach the one close to the edge, so Kevin had to redo it.

Shit!

However, I’m sure you guys know from your own personal experiences that when you renovate anything the process always comes with challenges.

We’ve been challenged this past week, and I’m not talking only with the solar panels, but with other things as well.

I’ll talk about that in another post.

-So the solar panels are installed.

Guess what comes next?

Wiring!

Not fun.

Kevin needs one more part in order to complete the project, which he’ll get tomorrow.

Once he hooks it up, we’ll have solar power.

WOOT!

Our goal for the month of June was to install our solar panels and get it working.

We basically accomplished it.

Our goal for the month of July is appliances.

We have a furnace and hot water heater that doesn’t work, and we know nothing about them.

We need a 3-way refrigerator, which cost between $1,500.00-$2,000.00.

I’m not shitting you.

I’m serious.

It’s frickin’ expensive.

We also need to find out if our a/c works, but before we can do that, we need to get our generator (our mechanic friend is rebuilding it) back. We might end up just buying a new one (I'd like to have a Honda generator) which I think cost like $2,000.00.

-So this month will be interesting and costly.

I’ll keep you up to date on it.

Honestly, I know all of our hard work and the money spent to do this project will be worth it in the long run.

For some reason we were meant to have this RV (Aesop), and I do appreciate it and love it. I'm also looking forward to seeing how it looks once we’re all done with the renovation.

Before we know it, we’ll be off on a new journey—a journey of self-discovery, of being in the now, truly living, and hopefully, inspiring others.