For the last 2 weeks we have been steadily moving everything out of our house and into the shed. We should be completely moved by the end of the weekend (crossing our fingers) so that we can get the house completely cleaned and ready for our renter to start moving in on Wednesday. There's a rediculously long list of misc. stuff that has to get done for that to happen, but we're working our way through it steadily.
One of the key elements of us living at the farm is having electricity. A key milestone in that process happened on Tuesday when our solar panels and control system arrived! We purchased batteries and some other needed cables on Wednesday and started reading the manuals for how to hook this thing up. Its a mid-sized system at 2.4 kW with 8 batteries. It should be more than enough to run the RV and, later, the cabin. Thursday we purchased the electrical panel and associated breakers so that we can eventually have normal electrical connections everywhere. With a little luck, we'll get the system operational by next weekend.
Then we can work on building the stand for the solar panels to mount on. That will be a larger project that will have to wait until we get completely moved out of the house. The gap between getting the panels mounted and us moving to the farm means we will be living power free (read: camping) for a while. Fortunately, the next 10 days look to be cooperating with unseasonably cool temperatures.
In other news, we had the farm brush hogged on Monday. We really needed to get the Sumac cut down so that it will stop spreading. We hope to get our own brush hog by spring time so that we can maintain it ourselves going forward. We didn't have time to do that this time though - we're too focused on the move. It makes quite a difference in how it looks! Of course, in the busy of moving, we have been lax about taking pictures so you'll have to wait on that for another post...
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