Like it's 1899...
Finally got back in NB tonight.
power's been out in tantallon since saturday night, and shows no sign of coming back on any time soon.
the snow plow didn't come by our street at all until this morning. that's 2 days of being effectively trapped in the driveway unless you have a truck to cut through a foot of snow.
Jamie came home sunday night.. by a tow-truck. his car was fine. just stuck for a day and a half in an unplowed street in timberlea, and with a dead battery from pushing it around for an hour or so w/ the lights on, trying to get it free.
sunday and monday were spent bringing in wood, stocking the wood stove for heat.. cooking food very slowly over the stovetop.. moving the contents of the fridge onto the back deck so food wouldn't go bad.. collecting rain water and melting pots of snow to use for water to flush toilets and to wash up a bit.. doing some homework by daylight [in between keeping the fire running].
evenings [which begin around 4:30 when it starts to get dark] were spent sipping wine by the fire, and talking with the family. mom and dad insist there's no such thing as "the good old days" if life required this much work, hehe.
My grampy had no electricity when he was growing up in Pubnico. there was maybe a waterpump in the house.. but going to the washroom meant heading out to the outhouse. food was kept in the icebox, and the stove had to be stocked non-stop. sounds like fun eh?
well the power company says power could be out to the end of the week, so my uncle drove the 3 hrs from Pubnico to bring my parents his generator, since south shore NS had hardly any snow and had full power. at least now they can run the water pumps and furnace to at least get showers.
boy am i glad i'm outta there.
don't get me wrong, it was an interesting weekend.. and a kind of nice break. but still. i'm a big fan of communication. and with only an ancient cell phone that has like a 1/2 hr battery life, we were pretty secluded, lol.
Finally got back in NB tonight.
power's been out in tantallon since saturday night, and shows no sign of coming back on any time soon.
the snow plow didn't come by our street at all until this morning. that's 2 days of being effectively trapped in the driveway unless you have a truck to cut through a foot of snow.
Jamie came home sunday night.. by a tow-truck. his car was fine. just stuck for a day and a half in an unplowed street in timberlea, and with a dead battery from pushing it around for an hour or so w/ the lights on, trying to get it free.
sunday and monday were spent bringing in wood, stocking the wood stove for heat.. cooking food very slowly over the stovetop.. moving the contents of the fridge onto the back deck so food wouldn't go bad.. collecting rain water and melting pots of snow to use for water to flush toilets and to wash up a bit.. doing some homework by daylight [in between keeping the fire running].
evenings [which begin around 4:30 when it starts to get dark] were spent sipping wine by the fire, and talking with the family. mom and dad insist there's no such thing as "the good old days" if life required this much work, hehe.
My grampy had no electricity when he was growing up in Pubnico. there was maybe a waterpump in the house.. but going to the washroom meant heading out to the outhouse. food was kept in the icebox, and the stove had to be stocked non-stop. sounds like fun eh?
well the power company says power could be out to the end of the week, so my uncle drove the 3 hrs from Pubnico to bring my parents his generator, since south shore NS had hardly any snow and had full power. at least now they can run the water pumps and furnace to at least get showers.
boy am i glad i'm outta there.
don't get me wrong, it was an interesting weekend.. and a kind of nice break. but still. i'm a big fan of communication. and with only an ancient cell phone that has like a 1/2 hr battery life, we were pretty secluded, lol.
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