Monday, August 02, 2010

New Solar Hot Water System, Stella & Flowers, Backyard Pool & Rainbows

Home project #1: New 10 panel Solar Hot Water System to heat all of our domestic hot water and provide radiant floor heating in the cooler Wisconsin months...or about 9 months out of the year!

This system will be placed on the east side of the house...facing South of course :)
First step...stake it out, and then auger 14 holes for the concrete pillars.
Next up...my goofiness...I was cooking chick peas the other night (aka garbonzo beans) for our weekly batch of hummus and I think I "get" why they are called chick peas...is it because they look like a mini cooked chicken?
Don't you see it? Doesn't this look like a mini-cooked chicken...hence the name "chick peas"...what do you think?
The echinacea flowers that my folks brought up from Indiana are thriving here. Stella loves to go out and see all the flowers.
She still doesn't understand why she can't have the camera...
If there is anything that Stella will climb...she will! The following is Stella climbing up to the printer and working in our home office...
Dangerous? Probably! Supervised? Definitely! Now here she is signing a book...
Need anything copied? scanned?
I'm here to help!
More pool fun...
I love this dress on her...
More rainbows at the Rayes...
Tommy and the kids holding up the end of the rainbow...Stella showing that the pot of gold is on Reeve's head.
The sun was bright and in their eyes, but we all love a good rainbow...there was a double rainbow here briefly...the whole thing was over in less than 5 minutes.

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