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Twice in 3 Days

Power is out.

Again.

Wind storm tonight, first quarter moon and overcast so it’s really dark. Odd day it’s been,  started off with a pretty good little earthquake. Temp got up to 44° today, really Old Man Winter?? First time I’ve seen the end of October this warm.

Felt this one really good.

We were working up the last of our meat chickens, that we slaughtered on Sunday evening, we were on the second to last one when the final flicker happened. Thankfully I had filled some reserve jugs of water earlier and with what capacity we have in the lines/pressure tank we had enough water to finish the job.

I already had the canner prepped with a batch of canned chicken meat (I had run a batch of chicken broth this morning!). Propane cooktop still works, just have to manually light the burners. We know how to make do!

Chicken broth in progress, made 2 gallons.

So here I sit in the darkness, with a headlamp on for light when I need it, a phone with half a charge, listening to my canner weight dancing around its 11# psi. Watching the blue glow of the burner flame faintly illuminating that portion of the kitchen. While the dog prances around wondering why it’s so dark. Waiting for my 90 minute timer to go off.

Power should be restored by 3 am the Power Company says. Not that I’ll care at that point, hope to be sound asleep before then.

I probably should consider a generator for times like these. However inconvenient losing power is, it kinda brings a sense of calm, a slowing down, a moment of pause . I’m not so sure I want that generator after all.

I remember back when we were kids, living on 6th street, when the power would go off we’d get so excited! We busy ourselves with grabbing the candles and lighting them only for the power to always come back on within very few minutes (our close proximity to the hospital meant we were never down long).

Awww, those were the good old days.

#alaskalife #canning #poweroutage #foodpreservation

Pizza Puzzle

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Pizza Puzzle
Lil Bit worked hard to finish this puzzle up today while the sun is out. #stillnopower

Still no power…

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Still no power…
It's 7 am, laying in bed this is all I see, power is still out, it's cold and I have to 🫛. Oh the joys of winter in Alaska!

Winter has finally arrived

Old Man Winter showed up yesterday, about 2-3 weeks behind schedule. We had a winter weather advisory to expect 1-3 inches and possibly ice. Well that turned into a good 8″, maybe 10″ with wind.

It’s wet and heavy.

And the power has been out since the wee early morning hours.

The kids were outside yesterday playing in the snow while Dean and I buttoned up the shop walls. We managed to get all the metal on and enclosed, all but the end where the garage door goes eventually.

Yeah! No more snow all over our stuff!

Once we get the woodstove installed we’ll be able to work in relative comfort this winter. I’m super excited.

We salvaged a shelter logic frame from the dump earlier this season and erected it to store our camp trailers and 4-wheelers. There was a good 10″ of snow saging the tarp down so the kids and I worked on clearing it off before chaos and collapse happened.

Now we need to shovel copious amounts of snow away from the walkways and drive. We won’t be getting plowed anytime soon so we must use good ole man/woman/child-power to move white stuff. All while Dean works pushing snow with the loader for our commercial client.

Life in Alaska.

Now we’re inside warming up next to the wood stove. B’H for non-electric heating. Times like this remind me that I need to install a 12 volt power and lighting system with a small solar array. Then at least we could function relatively normally without power.

But that’s a project for another day.

The grader finally came through at 5 pm. At least we could get up the road now if we had too. The oldest kiddo might be able to make it to work tomorrow.

In the meantime, we’ll light some candles and lanterns and play some games!

Playing Farkle in the darkle.

Enjoy the snow & stay warm!

When the Lights go out in Alaska.

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When the Lights go out in Alaska.
Started the day with a partial power outage, lineman came out to diagnose the problem.