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Non-Energizer Bunnies
Sep. 22nd, 2006 06:19 pmThe power went out about 22 hours ago (boo!) and is now back (hurray!) As mentioned before, it's amazing how still and quiet (read "dead") a modern house can feel without electrickery. Even if the lights aren't on, you get used to the little glowing-green-eye telltales, or the time readouts on VCR/DVD/Microwave, or even the ticks and whirrs as fridge and freezer do their maintenance. Lack of same is at one and the same time Creepy (especially here, where the actual water stops because the well-pump has died along with everything else) and Really Old-Fashioned and Cute (because the candles and the oil-lamps come out.)
Sorry, but I prefer modern. I don't even have a laptop at the minute (it needs fixed) so there's a strange desire to stick my head out of the door and yell "Hello! Anybody There?" Silly, but you know what I mean.
Still and all, we had a damn good breakfast; after stoking the fire up with bits of fallen beech tree (we've never burned coal in the fireplace, just wood and peat, so no nasty chemical-tar smells), we got one of the cast-iron frying-pans, dropped in a 50-50 butter/lard mix and had a bacon/eggs/black pud/white pud/garlic-butter-bread fry-up. And several cups of tea, from water also boiled on the wood embers. So (as my Mum would say) "That went all right, then."
Anyway, all power is back, and dduane should have more info, including some pics of where the Most Inconvenient Tree In Wicklow decided to come down. At least she'll have the pics when I give her the digicam. So I should do that now.
Sorry, but I prefer modern. I don't even have a laptop at the minute (it needs fixed) so there's a strange desire to stick my head out of the door and yell "Hello! Anybody There?" Silly, but you know what I mean.
Still and all, we had a damn good breakfast; after stoking the fire up with bits of fallen beech tree (we've never burned coal in the fireplace, just wood and peat, so no nasty chemical-tar smells), we got one of the cast-iron frying-pans, dropped in a 50-50 butter/lard mix and had a bacon/eggs/black pud/white pud/garlic-butter-bread fry-up. And several cups of tea, from water also boiled on the wood embers. So (as my Mum would say) "That went all right, then."
Anyway, all power is back, and dduane should have more info, including some pics of where the Most Inconvenient Tree In Wicklow decided to come down. At least she'll have the pics when I give her the digicam. So I should do that now.
