Here we are, five years into our adventure in New Brunswick.
I haven’t been working at Kingsbrae Garden .
Marie is still teaching knitting and crocheting at the Wool Emporium in Saint Stephen.
We have had good times and we have had not quite so good times.
Winter 2013/2014 seemed almost relentless.
I had been questioning why we still had our generator. We used it for a while after we arrived in NB while we were dry camping in Lynnfield, then when we first were on our property here before we had power.
Then along came the Ice Storm of 2013. Everything was coated with a thick skin of ice. Trees fell, pulled down power lines and knocked out our electricity. Seven long days we were without power.
The generator was safely under a tarp, buried under a snow pile. I dug it out, wrestled it to a better spot and fired it up. It fired up after a bit of persuasion. I plugged a power cord in to it after extricating that from some ice. WE HAD LIGHT!
Since we did’t have room to put a wood stove, we had to make do with a couple of small space heaters. It was chilly, but at least the house didn’t freeze up. Three days in, many of the houses on our road had power restored. Our transformer is on a side road, on a separate breaker, so we were “forgotten” for a few days.
I finally called in to explain the situation to NB Power one more time. There must have been a crew close by, because inside of an hour, they showed up and fixed our power.
The recent *almost real* hurricane we had was quite something! The previous 3 storms just were fairly intense rainfall and a bit of wind but nothing exciting. Nothing like this one. Not like Arthur. Absolutely devastating for trees in southern New Brunswick, especially in the City of Fredericton.
