We were off the hydro grid this morning -- woke up to no electricity. Andy and I have been plotting ways of permanently being off-grid and of being self-sustaining but we forget just how dependent we are. My woodstove took care of heat and breakfast, but until the electricity returned, I could not properly begin my day's work. I always have fully charged battery packs but plugging my IMac into one of them was, I felt, perhaps risky. Power was expected to be back on by ten AM.
So Tip and I went for a walk. I left the snowshoes behind -- the tracks I had made on previous walks should have been sufficiently solid. Snowshoes would have made the walk easier but it was enjoyable nonetheless. We have a small flock of turkeys in our area-- the neighbours feed wild birds in the winter and the turkeys visit the feeding stations. At night they appear to congregate under a spruce tree close to where I walk. Their trails criss-cross and the sweep of their wing tips in the snow all make striking patterns. Coyote tracks would be expected also, but I don't see any this year. Rather puzzling -- could be that the new snow covers them.
When back on our property I knew that the hydro was back on by the silence-- the neighbours' diesel generators had been turned off.
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