Little Shubunkin
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This is our cat. Her name is Kitkat.
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Sing along now 🙂
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Oh, how I loved my shed. Alas, it has gone the way of all things.
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I found a 12 volt TV for the solar shed. It was an experiment as I hardly ever watch it.
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Solar powered fish tank with bio filter. I set this up so the shubunkins could go out during the summer.
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What’s your favorite thing to cook? I love cooking pizza. I used to work in a pizza shop, so I’m quite a dab hand at them. My favourite pizza is seafood with lots of mozzarella cheese and anchovies with olives. Yum! 🤤
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The starting place for a solar sytem like this is to have a plan. The plan can be simple. Here is a schematic that is free to use. The plan would also need a list of parts, costings, etc. Since this solar system is 12 volt, you can use a lot of auto parts, like…
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Write about your first computer. My first computer was a British made Sinclair Spectrum. 1985 – it had 48kb of memory, which isn’t much by today’s standards. Britain became a place where people developed risc based machines. Reduced Instruction Set Computing. And some of that risc based architecture finds its way into every iPhone, MacBook…
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Though I am now retired, I still like solving technical challenges. One such challenge, in recent times was setting up a small-scale independent (off-grid) 12-volt solar powered system. This solar system only had one panel and one leisure battery, and it wasn’t much use for power intensive applications, but it was useful for LED lighting,…
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What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? When I was 42, I went to my doctor and said I was afraid of dying. He said “You are going to die.” Best advice I’ve ever had from a doctor. Now, as I approach my 68th…
