It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Rain all day yesterday (and canyons in our road despite the new water bars) and snow today.  Alt 220  closed between Julian and Unionville because of water over the road near the gliderport.

Eggs
             Nov total 157         $  39.25 potential month  income
             Nov daily avg 5.23    $ 815.00 total potential income
             22 month total 3260                    

We raised the air exchanger to 50% because we were getting too much condensation on the windows. Still don't have the furnace on; the wood stove is plenty big enough to heat the house comfortably.

Reading: Crush Jacobson****serial murder in Napa Valley, an FBI profiler on vacation, lots of description of the Valley and wine and lots of action.

Warning: Speed bumps

 

More from the Baron:

We installed some water bars along the long straightaway on our driveway. The water bars feel like speed bumps but their main purpose is to stop water from eroding the driveway into Grand Canyons.  The bars slow the water flow and channel it off the driveway (at least in theory).  Our bars are made of crushed rock, about 12-18 inches wide and 4-6 inches high. The more we drive over them the firmer they get and the better they work (at least in theory).
I put a set of reflectors (red and blue) on the side of the driveway at each water bar, a total of 5 bars on the drive.  The reflectors are 48 inches tall. I hammered a spike into the ground about 12-14 inches deep and inserted a 12 inch section of pipe into the hole for the reflector mounting pole.  This will allow us to easily change out reflectors that get broken.  The reflectors will tell us where to slow down while plowing the drive and allow us to raise up the plow so we don't end up leveling the bars as we plow.

Reading: Walking Thoreau, ***Philosophical; reasons to walk as valid now as in the mid 1800s.