Friday the power was out when we woke up and stayed out until 3pm. The winds have been really high and gusty and it brought down a power pole in Cottonwood! Yikes! That’s pretty scary! On our way home yesterday we counted 4 trees laying on the power lines and today the power is flickering so we are fully expecting an outage. Last week Barry built a box to house the generator next to the house and filled it with all the extension cords, extra fuel etc. Between the big one for the house and the little one for my office, we are ready! Last year we had many outages and some for long periods of time and we didn’t have the large generator handy so we only used it a couple of times. This year we expect to have many more with all the dead trees that are ready to come down.
The days have been up to 20 degrees and sunny with big wind. The cottonwood trees are almost bare. The Aspen turn colour after them so they are still full of beautiful yellow and gold leaves… So pretty!
You can see the box to the right… Still needs to be painted. The tin on the front of the front of the boot room is for snow, it will come off in the summer… Maybe.
Lots going on these days… Stay tuned…