Our Country Cottage A Narrative

  At the end of the last podcast I said I would tell you about day 2, after the power failure and where we stand at this moment. It has been about a month since I found Our Country Cottage frozen and low on power and some things are the same, and some things have changed. The generator is dead and there is still no water in the cottage. The toilets are still in disrepair and given all that, I have decided that Our Country Cottage will remain as such, till we can count on consistently above freezing temps. I will explain later. But for now.... Day 2 and beyond. I arrived with one thought in mind. When things thaw out, those frozen toilet tanks will put water all over the floor. If you remember I had destroyed the downstairs tank as much as I could in panic mode, but the guts were still attached and they still contained a fair amount of ice, not to mention the upstairs toilet. Well I didn’t have to worry about them thawing out right away. They were still frozen solid. I built a fire. The batteries were at 71%,