Hello and thanks for visiting! On this site, I plan to chronicle our conversion from power company serfs to true independence.
Right now, as we sit here, my darling wife is watching American Idol on our old television set, I'm sitting at the computer blogging like a bandit, and the stuff in the fridge is cold, the stuff in the oven is warm, and all is as it should be, except for one thing........
There's a coverplate instead of a meter in our meter can.
No, there's no noise going grindingly out back at the moment; we can hear the birds chirping, the chickens gluk-gluking and two of the seven cats mixing it up in one of their seemingly incessant scuffles.
Sure, we run a generator a couple times a day, and I will get into how and when and so forth as this blog and our experience grows, but for now, we're doing basically what we want without worrying about paying for it in 45 to 60 days.
No, we'll worry about paying for it, in kind, later that night. We'll either pay for it by suffering through listening to the generator or going to bed in the dark without seeing the evening news, and with flashlights to find our way to the little room, or some other way. But at least the 'reward' will be immediate, the cost borne on a daily basis, and not some time in the future after a big disconnect between actions and their consequences.
With this, next post I'll plunge into day number one and how it came to be that, and what we did to deal with it.
As I go, I'm going to include costs and details, including photos, of how, what, and my reasoning behind when, why, and so forth.
I'm going at this as fast as my finances will allow me to. Anyone wanting it to go faster, well, sorry--I don't have any more I can pour into it.
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