Saturday, April 25, 2020

It is back out to the homestead for me and Monday it is back into the office. I am out of paid leave and with Cassy on personal leave with Danny, we need me at work right now. I dropped Nadley with Mom so I can get as much accomplished with Gary as possible. The amount of work that man could accomplish in a week is astounding. We have enough trees dropped to finish the walls but they will still need to be skinned. That is a long and labor-intensive task. I have been at it since I arrived today. My hands are covered in blisters. The cool spring water felt good cooling the pain and no worries about any infection. The spring turned out fine in testing. Now we need to pipe it into a cistern and all the worries about water will be cured.

Power is another matter entirely. I have asked Gary about his opinion on Solar. His family runs their entire house off the grid with solar power. He is less concerned about a battery situation. He is convinced that even with the shorter life span of the lead acids would give any disruption in society plenty of time to right itself before you would need new batteries. He just about has me convinced to invest the small fortune into a system to run our cabin. Danny is going to need the support and comforts of the modern world. It is going to be longer than the modern world can afford him before he is going to be healed. I just hope and I am just near ready to try praying, that he can get out of that hospital before what is in Memphis makes it way to Nashville. Otherwise, it might be time to think about kidnapping my own son. His life might depend on it and ours.