She sleeps with the generator guy

This is a little late in posting. The ranch and outside work keeps us occupied.

Storm Ursula unleashed a heavy dose of unbalanced weather wrath on the last day of April 30, 2017. Strong high gusty winds blew all day with heavy wet snow that stuck to everything it landed on.

Now a ranch woman is prepared or so she thought. The old ranch house is not modern enough to handle an automatic generator. So we still plug the refrigerator in to keep the food good and unpluging it when we need to use other appliances one at time. This plan works well if your battery wasn't dead.

We waited the weather out until the next morning without power. It was bone chilling cold. The drifts made it very hard to dig out. Every tractor, skid steer and feed truck was drifted in. The hay was unreachable because of the drifts. The trees looked like a tornado had hit with the huge branches broken and some fell clear out of the ground blocking our way to the road. Hand shoveling is good for soul and body it releases some of the frustrations of feeling helplessness and overwhelmed.

Mid morning the county maintainer busted through the drifts on the road. It was a one way track with sides as high as your pickup. This was a sign to get out, get to town for a new generator battery and fuel. By the way the ranch woman bought the last generator battery in the town.

The ranch woman has a second job 43 miles away one way. On a normal day it is not an issue because she is early to bed early to rise. The ranch guy aka generator guy goes to bed later after feeding orphan kids so he gets up when she is leaving for work.

The generator guy gets up to start the generator when she gets up to begin the day. The first couple of days it was cold enough to run the house furnace. That generator guy finds ways to make things work even when he is bone tired, cold and wet. He never complains eating microwave meals or sandwiches and chips. On day 7 his son and daughter in law cooked up a great steak meal on the grill.

The generator guy had gone through several pairs of work jeans trudging through mud and snow all week. Day 7 the ranch woman loads up the laundry to find a laundromat at the nearest town 19 miles away. It has been 40 years since she has used a laundromat. Luck is on her side because when she scopes the laundromat out two other women were very helpful to let her know which machines were the cleanest or didn't work and how many quarters to use. How great is that?