An outstanding anniversary
Despite
the phone dying again on Monday night, Tuesday was an outstanding
day. By mid morning, the sun started to poke through the clouds
that had kept the sky white for the last three days. Solar
radiation quickly started melting the snow, and it only took a bit of
hoeing to work our way out of the driveway.
On the one year
anniversary of our marriage,
we ended up in the parking
lot of the same courthouse...but this time we were poaching
wireless. Our goals for this trip to town were really quite
simple --- we wanted to fill up some big jugs of gas so that we could
continue to run the generator an hour a day and I wanted to upload all
of my past posts (thus the poaching). While we were out, I
figured we should also stock up on some other essentials --- citrus,
chocolate, and flashlights.
Back home, we thawed out
the top of our wedding cake on the wood stove and ate it along with
some chicken cooked in my homemade
Dutch oven.
And then two miracles! First, an electric company employee came
wandering through our yard. He was lost and needed help reaching
the road, but the mere fact that he was scouting the downed power line
gave us hope (even though he said it may still be a week before we get
juice.) Finally, halfway through our generator hour, I picked up
the phone and heard a dial tone. Internet at home! Rapture!
You
all have been astoundingly patient with my shut-in, run-on blogs.
Now you're up to date! Starting tomorrow, we'll be posting in
real time (and will hopefully have a video to share with you.)
Meanwhile, check out our microbusiness
ebook for some Christmas reading.
This post is part of our Two Weeks Without Electricity series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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