• Chicken waterer
• Homesteading books

My favorite color (this week at least) is fluorescent yellow.  That's the color of line-workers coming to hook us back up Sunday.

I honestly wasn't expecting anyone to drop by until at least today, and Mark and I both remembered last time when we kept seeing people (and even a helicopter)...then went several more days without power.  But these young men skipped across the (now very scary) log the barn roofers used last spring, snapped splices onto the powerline, then quickly cranked the lines back into place.  We ate Sunday dinner cooked on the electric stove with real lights!

I've got lots more power outage excitement to relate (like the cheesecake I made on the wood stove), but I'll save that for the days to come.  Later, we'll assess how we did and what we want to change before the next unexpected outage, but for now we're a little giddy over on-demand internet.