Once I got the boys to school I spent most of the morning watching the rain fall outside while I worked on J's new laptop. I managed to get into winBlows enough to turn off the Bitlocker garbage then instantly went and installed Ubuntu as a side load.

I said "fuck it" to winBlows for now and was able to get him a solid suite of software loaded up.
GIMP
FreeCad
Arduino IDE
Libre Office
Creality Print
Opera
and some more apps but there are tons he can find in the Ubuntu software store. At least in Ubuntu every key stroke isn't watched by furor microsoft.

With the weeks of rains we've had it has given VERY little sunlight to the gate's solar panel so the battery was too low for it to work. I pulled the battery and got it charging for the day. I have to climb the tree, cut the dead lower limbs away, then move the panel about 20 feet higher up the tree. That is a bigger project than I want to do right now so am just charging the battery as needed.

After noon I saw a window in the weather but it turned out to be a a short break before another wave came through. I got the chain sharpened and figured out why they have NOT been cutting despite my good sharpening, I was missing filing the guards before the teeth... I did that but got them uneven so the saw walked on big cuts....

It dumped for a bit then poof it moved off and I had a weather window to work with for a bit.

So up the hill I hiked with the saw and got to the tree where it was still dripping wet from the rains.

This month has been a PERFECT example of what the Pacific Northwest has been known as... essentially a rain forest. Normally we are a bit drier but this November feels like we are living on the Olympic peninsula.

The tree was soaked which made the trunk and all the branches slick as shit and I had to work from the bottom up or else every cut the branches would rain water on me and had me soaked.

I finally made it to the top of the tree and had all the limbs off. I was steaming from the work but got started on bucking it from the top down.

In under 10 minutes I had the top cut down to the Y but stopped there as the chain was not cutting right on the bigger cuts.

I climbed down the hill to the base and started a cut but if you look close you can see the angle of the cut went totally screwy. I pulls hard to the left which means I borked the chain.

Still I have half the work done on it and nearly cut it back behind the fence it fell on. It's going to take a bit more work on the chains to get them setup right before I can get back to bucking the trees. Or I'll just have to sift through all my chains for one that will work better...

I was soaked from the work and the wet everywhere and spent a bit cooling off before I headed north to pickup the boys from STEM club. Of course it was still raining.

J got his laptop finally and began diving into Ubuntu which he is finding to be quite nice but for sure a bit different from winBlows.

I got dinner made and remembered that I had to refill our coco oil tub in the kitchen. We've had the 5 gallon bucket of it for years and it is still perfectly good. It just took a strong metal spoon to dig it out.

Got out to soak a bit earlier which had me out earlier.

I've been taking rather large doses of Vitamin D3 powder with coco oil in my morning tea all week. I can absolutely guarantee that the "ideal" of 5k iu is total BULLSHIT! That number was derived in southern California/Texas/Florida NOT IN THE NORTHERN TIER STATES! We here in the north require 20k+ iu daily with the drastic lack of UV we get. With it being cloudy all week this high supplementing is working wonderfully for me and I have a lot more energy and I was a lot more mellow with R in one of his freakouts.

While I was eating dinner I saw the email from Panida Theatre in Sandpoint that they are having a fly fishing film festival tonight so I got myself a ticket and will be going alone since R has a birthday party he will be going to and someone needs to be home when he gets back. The film fest is put on by House of Fly which is North 40s fly shop, and we will soon have the biggest of them 7 miles from the farm!

MY 3d PRINTER HAS SHIPPED!!!!!! But still NOT my miner....

Today it is super dumping rain but should stop mid day. I'll get the boys to school, PDC is on today, will work on sharpening chains, try to find a HDD, the driveway needs to be raked to get the washboard smoothed before it freezes that way, then in the evening I will drive the hour north for the film fest.

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