In response to Judy’s comment:  the solar panels should supply all or nearly all our electrical power needs.  We’ve always had fairly low electrical bills (our water heater, clothes dryer, stove and central heating are all gas).  Almost all our light bulbs are CFLs, we have energy star appliances, etc.
What we’d love to do is [...]

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I gave in and washed some of the Mendenhall merino fleece.  I thought the BFL was soft — the merino is like a dream!   The Unicorn Scour worked fabulously on it as well.  I’m pretty sold on coated fleeces….and I definitely want a colored fleece from Mendenhall.  (They put together several 3 ring binders with [...]

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I cleaned up our side ‘yard’ today and planted peas and fava beans (mostly hoping to improve the soil).  I’d already planted some peas and fava beans in the rooftop earthboxes as well.  The tomatoes are nearly done, as is our bellpepper (I harvested a lovely red-orange pepper this morning).  The lettuce is doing wonderfully, [...]

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I know it’s very geeky, but one of the reasons I’m so happy about the tankless water heater is that I finally get to scour my raw fleeces.
No, I don’t consider scouring fleece a lot of fun — it’s time consuming, hot, and messy –  but it is satisfying to see how filthy the water [...]

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Well, they’re up, but there’s still a few more inspections etc to go before they’re running.
More views on flickr.
Other stuff that happened Friday:
The oleanders are finally gone!  We planted two Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’, one Ceanothus ‘Cynthia Postan’, and two Heteromeles arbutifolia (Toyons) in their place.  We also bought a few more plants for different areas [...]

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Knitting

Finish Christmas presents in progress
Finish Slinky Ribs
Finish Dave’s Scarf
Work on Cleopatra

Spinning

Wash fleeces

Other arts/crafts

Possibly work on panels for kitchen cabinets?

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