When the Power is Out

What follows is 15 years of tried and true serious greenhouse heating and growing.  We live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the most hostile place that I know  for growing above ground vegetables.  I have witnessed frost on my precious garden in July and complete ground snow cover in September. Most years our frost free days are between the end of May and the second week in October. But in all reality old timers have told me they have seen snow in every month of the year at one time or another. So to say  the climate here is unpredictable could be a considerable understatement. We in Michigan's U.P. are at the mercy of the cold Canadian air catching a ride on earths jet stream deliberately gliding over the warmer water of Lake Superior. Together they form a dense cloud cover and enjoy a good laugh while they dump lots of lake effect snow on us. Absolute darkness comes at 4:30 in the afternoon starting in November and lasting until about the second week in February ....

                                  Imagine this;  A pandemic or crisis that has lasted far longer than anyone expected. People did hunker down best they could for the first couple of weeks. Life was at least tolerable, but then the power went out. That was about at least 5 weeks ago. You are standing at the kitchen sink getting a drink of water when you look out the window and notice something move. It's a n ordinary looking guy, lethargic, staggering and weak coming from the edge of the woods heading your way. You cautiously step out of the back door and make your way toward him, base ball bat in hand. You call out to the stranger and wait a couple of seconds to see what he is going to do. He motions for you to come to him and takes a few more steps and falls to the ground a few yards from you. With great anxiety you watch Mr. X as he lays there, trying to wake from his disoriented stupor...

"The two most important days in your life were the day you were born and the day you find out why." Mark Twain https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/    Spanish Flu and WWI--1914-1919       Covid-19   October, 2019 continuing through 2022 Most Likely           But then came new inventions. . . . .  Domestic Diva's                                                                       Rejoice          "It is almost impossible to realize what a changed and wonderful world we live in today."                                   Opal Amsler, Indiana   Circa 1921       ...