Year 4 Day 38 “Living the Dream”. Friday, 6/07/2024. Clifty Hill 2 – It’s now been a week of being off grid while working twenty-four seven on completing this house. Living this way has saved $1,000 off of the vrbo price. The only utility bill here is a water bill as we do have city water. Our power is supplied by six batteries, an inverter, and a quiet generator. We run the quiet generator every three to four days to charge our batteries and also when we use our double burner hot plate and run our washing machine. We haven’t started using the dryer yet. The Keurig coffee maker, internet, and TV we run off the batteries.
We run the larger generator on propane for about twenty minutes once a day to heat up our water to bath and do dishes. It costs about $1.00 a day to have hot water. Our largest bill is our cell phones and the internet. The worse part of this experience is no shower, no heat, and no air conditioning. It is hot!!! Sleeping at night is the worse. There is no sheetrock or insulation in the corner bedroom. The temperature outside is the temperature inside also.
We are on the constant search for things that use low wattage. When we need light by the table, we plug a led desk lamp into an extension cord that comes from the inverter.
The deck railing has been started.
Steve is constantly worried that I am going to walk off the balcony while cooking on the gas grill.
Things to ponder today! Have to leave you thinking.
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