Has It Been A Month Already?

Time flies when you're working your tail off. Came up for air and discovered we've been here an entire month. So far we have made a pretty nice campground for ourselves. We have a popup tent trailer and two 5th wheel trailers on site, as well as twhe 10' x 40' M*A*S*H* tent. Our solar electric system is in and running. We have plumbing. Still no building permit though. So we wait... We have set up a lawn sprinkler system but do not yet have grass. It's only about a half acre we want to sod, but have found sod to be very expensive. Today we bought a bag of tall fescue seeds. We'll see how that works. Living on solar power is a bit of an adjustment. We only have two 15 amp circuits to work with, and the batteries' storage capacity is finite. We can't run an air conditioner with it, and we can't just leave things on. No more porchlights on all night. If you really don't need that fan, be honest, shut it off. A few days ago, we ran 7 loads of laundry, plus the swamp cooler all day. Next morning we had no power. I figured out how to wire the big generator directly to the inverter/charger. The first day, we got nowhere with charging the batteries because we kept on running our appliances. We were using the electricity as fast as it was being produced, with little or nothing left over to charge the batteries. Fortunately, monsoon season is upon us. The temps have broken from the 100+ degrees and brutally sunny, to the high 90's and mostly cloudy. Get that sun off your back and things get managable. Today we didn't need appliances at all, save the refridgerator, and welet the sun do the charging. We made great headway until the afternoon clouds started rolling in. Monsoon season. Gotta love it.