It takes a half inch drill bit to make a hole just big enough to feed a standard extension cord through the wall of our refrigerator root cellar.

I didn't want to open a new tube of silicon for such a small application and decided what was left of the Shoe Goo should be good enough to seal up the gap between the cord and the wall.

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About us: 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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