Yay! The Electricity is Back On!

It's been over a week that I've been living without electricity at the cabin. It went out at the beginning of the big storm last week, came back on for about an hour a few days later, then went out again till this evening. Hume has a huge generator that powers the main buildings in camp, and all of the staff houses, but the Pearsey cabin is not on that power grid.
My usual routine when I come home for the evening has been to light an oil lamp, set it on the coffee table so that I can see the fire place, then I make a fire to heat the cabin. If I'm hungry, then I'll make some soup on the wood burning stove. I made quesadillas the first few days to use up all the cheese so that it wouldn't go bad without refrigeration. I stuck my milk outside in the snow when the power first went out. Then the big snow storm hit and dropped five feet of snow on top of my milk. It's still out there, buried. And, just a few minutes ago, part of the roof load slid down on top of the spot where it was buried. So, now there is like eight feet of snow on top of my milk. It's kind of funny.
I've spent most of the evenings reading by the fire, by lamp light till I feel tired enough to go fall asleep. I ran out of lamp oil last night and had to stop reading. I have more oil, but I had used it to fill a prop lantern for our summer theme promo video a few nights ago and forgot to bring it back home.
The it rained yesterday so the snow is all slushy in the roads, and the rest of it looks like it's just settled down from five feet to about four in most places. There are still twenty foot tall piles in places where the snow has been pushed to the side of the road, or shoveled out of somebody's front yard. Jocey and I shoveled out Sassy on Sunday. It took over two hours! And, we were both very sore the next morning. I was driving her around a little bit, but now the slush is too deep. I barely made it up the hill to Joce's trailer, so I've just parked her till it either freezes or melts completely. I would drive Shifty around, but I haven't had time to dig him out yet. He's all the way in back of the driveway, separated from where Sassy is by another twenty feet of snow six feet deep.
I don't mind walking. It's a new adventure every day, and I like that.