Ecological

• Jan 21- visibility low due to rain and mist, wind N 15 knots
• Jan 22- rain in the morning becoming clear, wind W 15-20 increasing to 30 before noon and becoming light in the evening.
• elephant seals: mother, pup, other female and Chunk have stayed around the West side of the house all week.  It has been a week since pup birth, the pup is growing quickly and the mother is getting visibly thinner.

Maintenance

• ran derrick to move logs
• wood stove repairs- removed old fire bricks, baffle tubes and baffle boards, cleaned fire box. Installed new baffle board and tubes, new fire bricks and blower.
• built a mesh cover for the second compost container.
• transferred one more drum of diesel to tidy tank, both tanks now full
• cut firewood
• sent inventory list of fluorescent tube fixtures to Chris for upgrading to LEDs.
• precipitation this week has done well to fill cistern

Other

• occasional DND blasting at Christopher point throughout the week.