I'm back home from a quick trip to Oklahoma to visit with Jeri, and have lots to tell you. Here's a start:

We had another big snow storm while I was gone and it looks like there was a power outage that caused the standby generator to take over. Looking at the history readout on the generator, it ran from 12 p.m. until 1 a.m. the next day.

Whenever the generator is running, you can hear it in the house, and Eloise the cat goes around with her ears at a funny angle the whole 12 minutes when it does the weekly test run, so I can imagine 13 hours of it. And meanwhile, inside the house, the timer lamps all did their thing - on /off - the only lights in the canyon. I could have watched TV, opened and closed the garage door, had water and septic working - all the comforts of home.

Wonder how much propane it used. Mr. Troutbend knows how much it's supposed to use.

I am sorry I missed it, because we seldom have outages, and this would be the first real one since I got the generator running - would have been nice to see it in action.