
Clearing the driveway

After
a week of hunkering down and getting by, we went back to work on Monday
morning. The first order of business was to clear the rest of the
driveway of fallen limbs. Last week, we just cut through the ones
between the car and the road, but I wanted to be ready to drive the
golf cart from the cars to the trailer to ferry in supplies. So
we pushed and pulled tree-sized branches out of the way to clear our
path.
Later, we scooted across
the creek on a log to keep our feet dry. In the neighbor's field,
we ran into two more power company employees, scouts who promised that
the chainsawing guys weren't too far behind. I'm not quite sure
why it takes two separate on-foot scouting expeditions and a helicopter
to assess the damage, but I'm not complaining as long as the real
workers aren't too far behind!
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Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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