Submitted by JeannieWatt on Mon, 2009-07-06 16:48.
In case some of you are not aware, I live off the grid. It sounds very romantic to generate your own power and not be reliant on a power company...or so I thought until the first time the generator broke down after we moved into our house fifteen years ago. But we've learned to live with it and have spent every major holiday without power at least once--except the Fourth of July. We decided to go to Reno to celebrate the fourth. The plan was simple. I would send Gary off to work, pack, drop the dog at the kennel and then pick him up at the mine on the way to Reno. Like I said, simple eh?
Here's the letter I wrote to my mother after I returned from Reno:
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