Life Off the Grid 15 - June 28, 2012

June 28, 2012

Wiring the cabin today! Two lights in the kitchen, an outlet in the dining room, another outlet roughed in in the living room, and the wiring up for 2 sconces on the balcony railing. 

 The mess of electrical bits waiting for instalation.

A connection box for a light in the kitchen ceiling!

A perspective view.

This will be where the light switches go just inside the kitchen doorway.

 And another connection box on the opposite side of the kitchen.

A box for where the power will come into the cabin.

 Roughed in power outlet in the living room for a lamp and my precious radio (no more D batteries!).

Wiring in the cabin. Who'd a thunk it?

Wiring running behind the propane fridge to the lights in the kitchen.  It is all too amazing!

Jeff wiring up one of the kitchen lights.

 Some of the nasty things you find when running wires under counters that have been in place for a long time. Ugh.

A light over the kitchen counter!

Another look from further away.

My gorgeous, hard-working man getting the light over the propane cooker installed. Soon I won't have to wear a head light to cook. Even in the day-time it is like a cave in the kitchen. Once upon a time it was bright and cheery. But then trees grew and cast deep, dark shadows in the kitchen...

Jeff went and looked at the roof and determined that the shingles were done. I suggested maybe it didn't make sense to put up a solar panel array and then have to shingle the roof. Frankly, I was terrified about him being up on that roof. It is really steep. We puzzled about how we might jerry-rig some kind of safety harness together. Then the wind blew the ladder down and that settled that. Well, actually, the wind blowing down the top of a tree right beside the cabin helped.

 There would be no roof walking today. And so, all the indoor stuff.

So tremendously exciting. A long way to go yet.