We had our first winter storm early this morning. All night, we lay in bed hearing the wild wind blowing the trees all around our house. There are a lot of trees around our house so this is a concern. During the night, we noticed that the power was out - the face of the alarm clock pitch black - and no power this morning. But we are used to being prepared in Highlands, and I had recently bought some fresh gasoline for the generator and cranked it up a couple of weeks ago to make sure it was working and there was enough oil. I got it going in no time, and soon both refrigerators and the furnace were working. We had caught some water, too, so we had water for coffee. And the little propane burner heated up the kettle for oatmeal. I even replaced the batteries in the carbon monoxide detectors, although the generator is outside and the house is pretty tight against the fumes. And I filled the five-gallon buckets with water from the little waterfall out back and was able to flush the toilets, too - Martha could see how much I was enjoying myself. And by noon the power had come back on, the community well began pumping again, and all was back to normal.
Feeling pretty resourceful! But no running today - it was a planned day off anyway. A day of rest is a day of becoming stronger.
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