Receipts

[Gwendolyn Hallsmith]

Hi all -

I've pulled together the receipts for the last three years, I'm still working on the years before that. Some of them are online, some of them are paper records that are now in files at my house. We will work as we have time to scan all the paper records so they are viewable. We do not want people coming to our home to look at them and we are not willing to let them out of our sight. Pandemic rules. I have also uploaded the spreadsheets that I download from the bank to create the financial reports. 

I found the receipts for the installation of the conduit to my house and the greenhouse from 2017, they are online. The reason I remembered it being over $2,000 was because the installation of the one at the Earthship was on a bill that was not itemized. So I don't really know what it cost, but the total of the two bills was over $2,000. The one to my house was $982. 

I am not willing to take any more abuse. So more unfounded and hostile personal attacks like those I received today will not be opened or read. If you imagine looking at all the records and trying to badger me about them or use them as bargaining chips, disabuse yourselves of that notion right now. The reason I'm making them available is for legal and IRS purposes. I have zero interest in any questions about them - it is the past and it doesn't matter. You need to think about the future. 

If you end up buying my shares and have legitimate, rational questions about something, I'll spend time then to familiarize you with the materials.

Let's work a little harder on making this a good ending.  

Thanks.

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Gwendolyn Hallsmith

gwe...@gmail.com

802-851-7697

[Tomas Vondra]

I can help with the cost itemization. I pulled the invoices and receipts from my archive.

 

Gwen’s hookup was $982 – see attachment Invoice 1749

 

Greenhouse invoice of $1400 was for the electric hookup (conduit, wire, trench) and root cellar insulation (foam).

Root cellar:

Labor @ $35/hr – 5hrs   $175

Material (froth pack, respirator, goggles, Tyvek suit –  receipts included with the invoice 1751 pdf ) - $790

Total: $965

 

Greenhouse electric hookup:

Labor @$35/hr – 9hrs    $315 (I’m definitely cheaper than excavator)

Material (conduit+little bit of wire, because we re-used the one which was there) $120

Total $435

 

 

 

Gwen, I asked for the receipts, because we paid our condo fees into the account that paid for a lot of things. Our budget was pretty simple so it shouldn’t be too difficult to check that against the account statements.

 

Tomas

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[Gwendolyn Hallsmith]

Thanks, Tomas. Going forward, it would be good to provide itemized invoices.

Now could you explain to us if the electrical system you created is still unsafe for the Welters, as Oliver claimed? If so, how is it unsafe?

One question I had about the conduit and wires that are in place is whether they could be still used in reverse so when electricity does come to my house from a different direction it could go to the Earthship?

I had a whole house generator in Montpelier that I had planned to bring out here for the house, but you, Oliver, and the solar guy I paid to come out to look at my system to determine if I needed more panels or different equipment convinced me that this was a better solution, and it is. A lot lower environmental impact, no noise. That's why I agreed to it - this wasn't my idea. There is a foundation behind my house I poured for the generator, another bit of wasted money that isn't serving its purpose. The generator is gone now, it was sold with my house.

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The thing you seem to be missing in all of your requests for information (which now have taken me more than 30 unpaid hours to pull together) is the fact that there is an administrator involved (me) who takes all of that (sometimes confusing) information and pulls it into an annual financial report that everyone can understand. But if you want to reinvent the wheel and try to do it yourself, all the information is there. The bank statements, the spreadsheets with the downloaded bank transactions, the receipts, the tax returns. Where actual receipts are missing (I have said before that I'm not so good with pieces of paper), the IRS accepts canceled checks as their proxy, and all the canceled checks for 2021, 2020, and half of 2019, are there (the bank only keeps that much online, 7 years are available if needed). 

All that should be enough, unless you actually think I take a backhander from Jim Abbott for the plowing contract we've given him in the past. Hey, I'm supposed to be a dishonest uber-capitalist now, that's what they do all the time. So bizarre, when otherwise I'm accused of being a communist by the same people, at least according to our neighbors, their parents. 

[Tomas Vondra]

The question about safety and adequacy would be best answered by professional electrician, I think the disagreement lies somewhere else.

Yes, the cable could be used to supply the power to the Earthship from your house.

 

The book keeping – I don’t blame you for anything, I didn’t see enough info yet to draw any conclusions.

We all spent countless hours working for the community and few are paid, most are not.

 

As to people convincing you to keep the existing solar setup, I found this.

 

 

Wed 9/16/2015 from gwe...@gmail.com

 

That's what I thought. We can talk to Brad this morning. I'll try to be there as soon as I can so the debate is short. Yesterday was a hard day for everyone, I think,

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Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Headwaters Garden and Learning Center

Global Community Initiatives

Vermonters for a New Economy

gwe...@gmail.com

802-851-7697

 

Heal your life at Headwaters.

 

An IPad message... Its choice of words occasionally amuse and often confuse.

 

On Sep 15, 2015, at 10:01 PM, "Tomas Vondra" <tomas....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Gwen,

 

The little junction box with the thick wire is temporary. We need some outlets to run the workshop. That wire will end up either in its own grid tied breaker box or goes straight to the inverter. Depends on outcome of tomorrow's debate.

 

When we lived in the Tiny house, we used solar for lights and water (cold and hot), radio and some small appliances (clock, chargers...). On sunny days it was enough. My guess is, that you might not use so much electricity as we did, since it was four of us and Tara and kids are not exactly people, who would think about saving power.

 

My take on the whole thing is to start with what you have and make necessary steps to have it ready for upgrade. Then we wait if it works....

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gwendolyn Hallsmith [mailto:gwe...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 21:54
To: Vondra Tomas
Subject: Your electric idea

 

Hi Tomas,

 

I spoke with Tom after I got back tonight, and he seemed to think that you were planning to hook the 50 amp cable up to the little skinny wire? Something about how they were both sitting in that junction box together. I think he agrees with your plan to add a breaker as the cable comes into the house and split it up from there. That's what I told him you were doing, anyway.

 

I thought that the purpose of the spit was so the grid could continue to charge the batteries when there was not enough solar power? Assuming that it did so when the fridge and washer weren't demanding energy. But both Oliver and Tom seemed to think that this wasn't possible and that the arrangement you had before wasn't likely to be replicated,

 

Anyway, I'll be there in the morning tomorrow. I can run over to the Home Depot in Littleton and pick up the breakers we need, assuming that we plan to go with your idea. Brad is also available to talk to us in the morning.

 

Thanks for all your work. This electric stuff is hard, but it's because we're trying to do things that mostly haven't been done before. Always harder than doing it the same old way.

 

Cheers, Gwen

 

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Gwendolyn Hallsmith

Headwaters Garden and Learning Center

Global Community Initiatives

Vermonters for a New Economy

gwe...@gmail.com

802-851-7697

 

Heal your life at Headwaters.

 

An IPad message... Its choice of words occasionally amuse and often confuse.