Jane & I won the Prometheus Award for Alliance Rising

It’s a very nice award. It recognizes a book that promotes individual freedom or the right to ‘vote with one’s feet’ when it comes to choosing your allies and your government. Intelligence and foresight matter. Which is something AR is about.

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smartcat on August 25, 2020 at 4:52 am

Well! That was fun! Flushed the toilet in the middle of the night; did not realize it didn’t seat properly so it ran all night until it ran the well dry.
No water! Not what I want to wake up to.
Fortunately, since I am just paranoid enough to always keep several gallons of drinking water and many containers of wash and other use water on hand, so it wasn’t a major problem. Still a drag waiting for the well to refill.
We were without electricity for several days a couple of weeks ago. CT was much worse. Ain’t it fun living on the farm?

P J Evans on August 25, 2020 at 2:09 pm

So much fun – we had the electric cable to the well pump short out, once, right about when we had company show up. (We didn’t know, at first, but what it might be the pump…more than 200 feet downhole.) The short would have been fairly impressive to see (it vaporized a couple of inches of wire with the insulation), except it was underground.
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Raesean on August 25, 2020 at 5:38 pm

SmartCat, did you get the torrential thunderstorm & winds Sunday in Rhode Island also? We just north of Boston got about an inch of rain which —even though most of it was in a deluge—was helpful to the trees and bushes in this drought. We also got major winds that blew down branches & trees. Some smallish branches came down on our front porch; major trees came down on power lines a few streets over and caused major damage. Some folks just got their power back today.
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- smartcat on August 26, 2020 at 4:18 am
  
  @ Raesean, just the very edge of it, enough to fill the rain barrels, but no real downpours. The well has recovered nicely, but we could use some rain.
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HRHSpence on August 25, 2020 at 2:47 pm

I hope things are all right, Smartcat! The worst thing I ever had with a well was a sump pump (that our house used to keep water from flooding our basement) go bad and rather than pumping the water away from the house it pumped it into the basement. My dad was livid! I had turned it on after all.

Hanneke on August 26, 2020 at 9:47 am

I finally got my new phone working so I could log in again. I really hate that with new phones, you cannot change the battery when it dies suddenly – it has to be sent off to a specialist repairman to replace both the battery and the screen, which takes more than a week. As I literally cannot log in to work without the login authenticator on my phone, that means I needed to get a new one ASAP and get the authenticator moved over or it costs me more than one day off. Grrrr.

I almost went for a Fairphone instead, as that was the only one with a replaceable battery, but not only does it cost twice as much, the one colleague who has one is troubled by disruptions caused by oxidising contacts between the replaceable components.
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- CJ on August 27, 2020 at 11:53 am
  
  welcome back!
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  - HRHSpence on August 27, 2020 at 5:56 pm
    
    And to you, too, CJ.
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