Intrepid line-workers bring back power early
My favorite color (this
week at least) is fluorescent yellow. That's the color of
line-workers coming to hook us back up Sunday.
I honestly wasn't expecting
anyone to drop by until at least today, and Mark and I both remembered
last time when we kept seeing people (and even a helicopter)...then went several more
days without power. But these young men skipped across the (now
very scary) log the barn roofers used last
spring, snapped splices onto the powerline, then quickly cranked the
lines back into place. We ate Sunday dinner cooked on the
electric stove with real lights!
I've got lots more power
outage excitement to relate (like the cheesecake I made on the wood
stove), but I'll save that for the days to come. Later, we'll
assess how we did and what we want to change before the next unexpected
outage, but for now we're a little giddy over on-demand internet.
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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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