Future Grapefruit

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bittersweet

Ate the lone survivor grapefruit this morning.  From blossom to breakfast in 10 months. 

How did it taste?  Bittersweet, of course.

Added a little more steel to the solar panel rig today.

Chard with my supper tonight.  49,65,32,0,C

plucked

Was getting worried that I was not going to be able to get a tracking circuit from redrok.com.  I sent two emails in the past week and no reply.  Decided I would just have to suck it up and employ some old fashioned human interaction...on the telephone.  Duane Johnson is the mastermind behind the site and he was really great to talk to.  Chatted with him for quite some time and he even had some good suggestions about my solar oven.  As long as I was doing things the old fashioned way - I am sending him a check by regular mail for my order of two of his single axis tracking circuits (throwing in a set of Field Lab postcards just for fun). 

I decided that the paramotor helmet I ordered was just a little bit too snug for comfort.  Packed it up and shipped it off in exchange for the next larger size.

Spent the afternoon checking my local junkyards for a chunk of pipe.  I need a 6' length of 4" OD steel pipe to rig my solar mount to.  No luck...yet.  Looks like I have another deep hole and some concrete mixing in my future.

Been nursing my lone grapefruit along since it was just a pup.  Took a deep breath today and cut if off the tree.  Will slice it open tomorrow to go with my breakfast.  53,67,25,0,W,.45

grapefruit nest

Put 2 new graphite molds to work today...cast 17 coins.

Built a little shelf for my lone grapefruit.  I named it Harold after my grandfather who used to always bring us fresh grapefruit from Florida.  It's about the size of a baseball now and hanging on for dear life.  Finished drying and conditioning the rattlesnake skin - mailing it to South Africa on Monday. 93,105,69,0,B,0