I live on a dirt road a few miles outside Nowhere, WV.\u00a0 Nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile away, etc. I have to drive about 5 or 6 miles for groceries and\/or beer.<\/p>\n
My chunk of ridge is beautiful regardless of the season. Wild animals galore with hunting and fishing on my patch. Gardening is doable with a little care, we have adequate sun and rainfall, etc. About 30 acres for hay and\/or livestock… about 40 acres is woods.\u00a0 We have a private natural gas well.<\/p>\n
It’s important to understand the pastoral nature of my lifestyle for perspective.<\/p>\n
We have frequent power outages so we have two backup generators. We have 4 sources for water, and 3 sources for heating\/cooking. Our land-line telephones are pretty dependable, but we also have marginally effective cell service. We have satellite TV and a few off–air channels.<\/p>\n
And we have satellite internet! We’re used to outages from rain or snow. Of course the weather is a known quantity.<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning THAT satellite turned away from earth AND my dish!<\/strong><\/p>\n I sat out under the stars last night and pondered the meaning of events. Yesterday I got my truck fixed and got the parts to fix my old riding mower… it should have been a plus day, but I have lingering concerns that karma was telling me something?<\/p>\n The internet problem was fixed this AM, but still somewhere in the cosmos an quark or something changed its state and a satellite got momentarily lost. Was it something I did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"