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The rancho is going solar.  The photo to the left is the future home of 39 solar panels.   This author has wondered aloud how all those panels will mesh with the quiet majesty of nature at the rancho, but will apparently find out soon, because the engineers will be out to stake out the site over President's Weekend and then the engineering and permitting will begin, with some estimates placing installation as early as March 23rd.  Some coordination and inspection with PG & E will be necessary in order for their approval of said project, at which time, the rancho will be given the go ahead to flip said switch. 

While the ultimate goal was clean energy independence and self-sufficiency, the basic hope is that when we flip a light switch, the lights go on and the well continues to pump water to the house.   Air conditioning in summer would be a close runner up. 

It would be a happy day, indeed, to be able to report that this phase of planning and building at the rancho will conclude the numerous projects that were within the grand five-year plan.  It has come to the attention of one of the ranchers that the other thrives on planning and building things, and that while this very post is being composed, plans are being contemplated to build an annex to the tool shed -- yes, yes, you heard that correctly.  It was suggested that, perhaps, a pre-made tool shed from Lowe's might suffice.  A faint guffaw was heard in response.   "No, no," he was heard to say, "One must be constructed," and off he walked, into the sunset, muttering something about joists and lumber and nails.   That evening, over a glass of wine, it was revealed that the Grand Plan has been expanded.  Perhaps merely installing drawers in the closet and redoing the master bathroom would not be adequate.  Knocking out the front portion of the house by the master bedroom might provide the desired result. 

Could it be that Mrs. Winchester has been reincarnated into this industrious rancher who never seems to stop building?  Is it the vast horizons that are visible at the rancho that motivate a person to be ever expanding over the horizon?  What drives a person to demonstrate such a level of work ethic, perseverence, and schpilkas?  There is a suspicion that it is hereditary, as well as environmental.  I will leave the reader with a quote by one of the geniuses of this world, which may shed some insight on a person who possesses this indomitable spirit to achieve:

"I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."
Johannes Sebastian Bach



 


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