On Narrow Pond in Ant Village

little clean up on the old slow well

Cotton Tarp for tank for old slow well....

...replacement lid en route for tank!

Food Cost for an Ant Village Resident

organic food, especially California certified (rather than just usda), is best and required for those who live in Ant Village.

Here's a receipt to give a person an idea of groceries for about 10 days:


..addtionally, I bought two jars of peanut butter at costco.....Costco beats target on every item Costco carries....I should've went to Costco first and then to Target!

Electric Solar System is kicking butt!!
I only have half my panels on my little power tub
...from 8:30am till 10:45am, it charged half of my 4Ah chainsaw battery, charged from 63% to 100% of my 20Ah jump and usb battery, and most of an old 16Ah Rav usb powerbrick which always has trouble charging to 100%.

..and it is a mostly cloudy day

..note that I haven't received my 280 Ah battery yet...inside the power tub is a 7Ah LiFePo battery!   ...since the 7Ah battery is still above 13 volts (14.3), all that power came from just two 100W 12v panels

Did some tractor work, shovel work, timed the old slow well for an hour then prepared all parts for when timer arrives.....and then my very cheap $509 usd 280Ah LiFePo4 cells arrived!!!

the bms cost extra

....hmmm, looks like I need 8 gauge 1/4" stud connectors to finish connecting the BMS