We are trying something. We put castration rubber bands on the goats horns to see if they’ll fall off. It’s been 3 days and the tips are discolored and the horn is starting to splinter.

Scott Stapp from Creed goes off in between songs.

“We start reminding them of what our Constitution says. We start reminding them what our Bill Of Rights says. We remind them that we are a Constitutional Republic built upon the Bible and the word of God and NOT a democracy.”

The Great Awakening has hit full throttle, frens.

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We are missing about 30 chicks from one coop this morning. We have the new hatched chicks in 3 coops around... one coop in the pasture was being picked off by the hawks and we enclosed it last weekend. This morning one of the coops in the barn yard has only a dozen still in it. My first thought was the hawks can't eat the ones in the pasture so they moved their dinner table. But there are no feathers or blood or any signs something is wrong. There is no way terrestrial animal got in... top of fence is electric and no signs of digging.

I hate to think the worst of people, but the only new people who've been here were the mexicans that did the roof on the barn last week. But I overflew the back entrance of the pasture and there are no tire tracks in the dew... and the dogs weren't barking last night.

I'm very perplexed. Should be fun when truly hungry people don't harm YOU but only wanna slip in a steal a chicken or a goat. Food for thought.....

....and this just showed up in my feed....

In southwest Miami-Dade County, two horses were stolen and butchered.

“They’re our children, and they were abducted and killed for meat… This is the same thing as going into someone’s yard, taking their dog and cooking it.”

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Interesting problem here.... it's a good problem to have.... as we get into the fall in the northern hemisphere, the sun is a little lower each day at noon. My panels are tilted to be optimized for winter and this means that each day at noon they make a little more power on peak. Solar noon here is 1:30pm. At 1:37 today I was making 262amps (14.4kw) into the batteries.

In this graph we have 12 noon unil 2pm... you can see production is up and down as it was raining and the sun would burst thru the clouds. Since my system was making more power at that moment than my battery could absorb, the system went on grid at 1:47pm and started exporting power AND charging the batteries (the flat line). Indeed this is a good problem to have.

Just saw a video where a guy tried to make a 48v generator with two 24v alternators. It would work if he electrically isolated the two alternators' frames from each other. You see the alternator frame is ground. Anyway, I had never thought of this, but it would work. https://a.co/d/hxDQAJD . two of these properly done in series would make 70amps @ 48vdc... that's 3,8kw....

But just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do something. If he got a predator generator from Harbor Fraught he could feed it into one of the signature solar 5kw DC chargers (turned down a little bit).... .and then he'd have a generator for use around the farm instead of a one trick pony.

Yours truly got his drone license today. Got an 87 on the exam. If you wonder why it's been a little quiet and not offgrid related.... been studying for pilot license and thursday went to an agricultural trade show. We setup the drone along with a TV playing B roll footage of the drone flying.

Noted yesterday that one of our dogs has a gash in his back, I suspect he was trying to get out from under a trailer and sliced his back. But it happened the same night those 30 chicks went missing. Our other large dog hasn't been eating and I think we gunna take him to the vet tomorrow. He's got megasophagus and we worry he may have something stuck in his throat. We feed him standing almost stright up on a platform I built for him. AND I noted one of the hens today has a lame foot. Caught her and hte poor thing has all the tendons on the front of her "ankle" shredded. Shes walking on the top on her foot because there is no way those tendons will ever be right again. Sweet girl... she didn't fuss at all while I was looking her over. We thought at first she might have sprained it or her hip joint... typically a frisky rooster will be too rough... we had planned to put her in the chicken ICU to let her get some R & R... but instead we put her in with the remaining chicks so she doesn't have to fight for food. Poor thing.