I don't have solar here yet. and I am here alone for another 4 days/nights. I did learn to pull the string to get the generator started, but sometimes it is still very hard to do. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. (not enuf r's)
I learned that I shouldn't turn the switch to 'choke' when the generator is already hot.
Normally, I don't use the generator during the day. But it's been raining here. A lot.
I have gotten increasingly peeved at the honda authorized repair for keeping my main generator for weeks on end, saying "we haven't received the part yet.) I can push a button from inside the house and the generator turns on (when the main honda is here). But nooooooooooooooooooooooo, I gotta go outside in the scary dark and make the generator go on and off. Yes, I am a wuss.
My nearest neighbor is a mile away. Cuz that's how long the driveway is. You know. Up a private mountain road. It's west virginia, not malibu! I live with the bears. Well, I don't know that to be true. I've heard there are bears, but, I' haven't see any. Prolly cuz it's dark and I don't see well.
I live with the deer. that is true. I go out at night to turn off the generator (grrrrrr... i hate doing that) and the deer aren't afraid of me at all. I think word is out that Ima veghead. They are all coming here. The word is out. They come, and leave their poop in my yard. Lots of deer poop. I admit. I love seeing lots of deer in the middle of the night when I go outside.
But, I don't think it's normal for a citygirl to be able to see and know the difference between deer poop and horse poop. What has happened to me?
I don't like that I have surrendered to those itty bitty little green buggy things that come in if you have the door to the screened porch opened. But I did.
oh yeah. I'm a skinny dippin' (did I say I live on a river.... I mean right ON a river you can see the bottom of... and it's over my head in spots) , gardening, earth mother now.
Okay... i'm akeered to go skinny dippin' alone.
grrrrrr.
and the damned generator too. grrrrrr.
mebbe I gotta buy a condo.
I worry.