Monday, March 26, 2018

The Setting Can Be Beautiful

If it weren't for the fact that Paula and I were without electricity for five days ...

We received more snowfall yesterday here on Big Walker Mountain - thirteen inches - IN MARCH - than we did in December, January and February combined.


Without power I would once a day run the tractor to the creek toward the back of our property to obtain water for the horses and cats (and once for a "shower" that I took outdoors in 30 degree weather, buck naked; a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do). We used the LP gas grill for cooking and for coffee and we had our fireplace insert (sans electric fan) for keeping the house's pipes from bursting. 

We survived.