Our Country Cottage A Narrative

  Last time I said I would tell you about our power alert system. Don’t get worried, this isn’t going to get too technical. I realized early on that not being at Our Country Cottage all the time would leave us open to some major problems if something was to fail to work properly, especially if power was to fail. Seems a little funny to be talking about this now, after an undetected power failure. But anyway. The original thought was to have some way that our cottage could tell us if power fails. To that end, I found our phone company had devices that work from cell phone signals  that would provide internet access. I didn’t want to spend a lot of cash for internet up there so this seemed like a perfect solution. For very little cash we got very little data, 100 meg. Just right for the odd email. It has been working flawlessly. Cell phone signal at our country cottage is a bit hit and miss. If you have your phone in the right place , I know of 3 or 4 places cell phones will work in the living room and a coup