{"id":1633,"date":"2011-09-03T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2011-09-03T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:00:59","slug":"will-is-building-a-rack-for-our-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/09\/03\/will-is-building-a-rack-for-our-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Will is building a rack for our solar panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rack.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1634\" title=\"Rack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Rack.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"807\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of the neighbor&#8217;s scrap pile, Will re-purposed an old satellite dish stand to be used for our new solar panels that our carpenter friend, Tom, gave us for our wedding present. He&#8217;s spent hours for two days, figuring out angles and measuring things, but tonight, after dark, he&#8217;s out there, pouring concrete in the form, in a hole in the ground. This will be the sturdy base to which the steel rack will be bolted. We DO have wind up here&#8230;and one day, we&#8217;ll use that wind for a wind generator to provide electricity for our house and get even further away from using gas for the generator to charge our battery bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Will-after-dark.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1635\" title=\"Will-after-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Will-after-dark.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve been canning up a storm. The last batch was chili. I&#8217;ll do a repeat tomorrow, after we go pick up two more calves from a friend who has a dairy about thirty miles south of us. The garden is simply abundant with produce that I&#8217;m trying hard to use to its best advantage. Stay tuned; I&#8217;ll give you more pictures of the solar panels when they&#8217;re mounted. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the neighbor&#8217;s scrap pile, Will re-purposed an old satellite dish stand to be used for our new solar panels that our carpenter friend, Tom, gave us for our wedding present. He&#8217;s spent hours for two days, figuring out angles and measuring things, but tonight, after dark, he&#8217;s out there, pouring concrete in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}