A new and fun person has come into our life and is helping us maintain the old farmhouse. Old farmhouses are loving and wonderful things, but they need maintenance and love to stay in shape. Craig Watson is a licensed electrician, he is helping us in a number of way. He’s putting up a new spotlight so friends and visitors can see where they are going when they park in the dark.
We are planning to get a bit more social and cook more for our friends at home. Craig is installing a new light of of the house. He is also helping us install a new track light in the ceiling of the dining room, only only remaining dark and gloomy room. We do a lot of paperwork and other things at the table, the light will help, and also be useful when we have people over.
Beyond that, Craig is going to set up our new (used) portable generator, which we got from a friend’s father for $400 – a steal. Some people don’t believe in climate change, but we do, and the storms coming through her more often now are smaller and less destructive than the ones down South and elsewhere, but many of them are strong enough to knock out the power. It’s happened seven times this year, many more than is usual.
Our generator is small but will help us stay online, use the refrigerator, keep the water going to us and the animals, and turn on the water heater. We can’t do all of these at once, but we can switch from one to the other. And keep the blogs going too.
He’s also going to install a baseboard heating panel for Maria’s office upstairs, she’s been freezing up there while she does her shipping and record keeping, and I didn’t know it, she never mentioned it, I just found out about it, and told Craig not to listen to her if she said she didn’t need it, it was only cold four or five months out of the year.
That’s just what she did say, but fortunately, I got to him first. He’s installing it next week. All of this for less than $400. He’s a find.
Craig is an unusual man, no big man in a truck. He is funny, creative and he makes all of this work fun. He’s a unusual man, open and quite honest. He doesn’t do work he doesn’t like, and is direct.
I hope to get to know him better, we connected with one another. He is a complete Luddite, no cell phone or computer, never been online. We had our first debate yesterday, about my Iphone X. He almost fainted when i showed him the animated emojis.
It’s neat to have Craig in our life, and in keeping with tradition, I share the people in our town who come into our lives. He’ll be back next Saturday to install the dining room light. The generator will probably have to wait until Spring, it’s going in the woodshed and that is full of wood.