The snow has almost all gone, and we have power, so time to put the heating pad back on the hummingbird feeder. 🐦
Month: February 2021
I grew up reading science fiction in bed every night, but in the past few years I’ve been reading Twitter instead. Perhaps not the most soothing bedtime reading. Yesterday I decided to resume reading SF, starting with Dan Moren’s book The Caledonian Gambit. 📚
The Micro.blog challenge word for day 16 is “erudite”. Maybe the erudite folks who made the feral cat feeder could figure out that the best way to cope with low batteries when the power is off might not be to continuously dump all of the food? 🐈📷 #mbfeb
We’ve long thought about getting a whole-house generator, so our well etc can still work during a power cut. After the long outages during summer wildfires and winter storms, and the likelihood such climate changes will continue, that has jumped to the top of our priorities. 🔌
Our electricity came back on last night after dinner. Phew! It has had a couple of brownouts since then, but so far so good. Things are still very messy locally and nationally, so we could lose power again, but hopefully not. Our total: about 69 hours without power. 🔌
Still no electricity. No idea when it’ll be back on for realz. Very glad for the generator, though; it is powering our kitchen fridge/freezer, internet, and devices, and we have propane fireplaces for heat and stovetop for cooking, and water jugs. So we’re fine. 🔌
The Micro.blog challenge word for day 15 is “reflection”. A reflection in the pond of the ducks sleeping on the bank, amongst melting icy residue of the snow. ❄️🦆📷 #mbfeb
Uh oh, I jinxed myself; just after I posted that, the power blinked several times, and went off again. D’oh!
The power is back on! Yay! About 44 hours without electricity; the longest we’ve experienced. (I know other places often have much longer… and it was off longer here during our wildfire evacuation in summer, but we weren’t here to experience all of that.)
This is what we call hovering room only. ❄️🐦
