National Grid

National Grid called (at 7PM!) and said "You need to get easements from your neighbors plus copies of deeds plus copies of tax maps. If you can not get easements, you will not get power." I am half-hoping we don't get it, since I have some goofball ideas about 12V power and PV panels that I might get to try, although realistically the budget is long gone already.

I met neighbor Harry Ostrander the other week (other side of Thisse camp) and he wants power too and he is out next to Terry Thisse. If NG (did no one in marketing notice the initials?) brings power to more than one person, the 7.6 kV primary line is free, residents just pay for the secondary line. So I need to call all these people and chase things down, and see what happens.

Notes from Thanksgiving Work (2/2)

The "after pictures" of the bedrock are shown here, plus I wander down by the lake mumbling about the dock.

Thanksgiving work - Dirt

Did not get very far on my do list when I realized that item 2 should be "dig out bedrock completely." Stayed with Tim and Cathy Buckingham in town who let me take showers and fed me as well (very nice!). Despite wearing the natty rain pants shown in the video to keep mud off my pants, I brought quite a bit of that mud into their house. This short video just shows me doing work (drill hole and dig), so not terribly interesting, but gives you an idea of what I did for 3 or 4 days.