A nearly electric experience

We had gone home for one day, and returned to find Brian Hampton grading the road. It was a welcome sight, as the summer monsoon rains had left the roads rutted and rough, and they had been that way for months.









We were also encouraged to see two APS trucks sitting on the ranch road near the highway. Gerald got out to see if they were there to bring us our long-awaited electricity. They said they had pulled the wire, and another crew was setting the transformer. We were very excited. We missed that crew, though. We just saw the tops of two trucks more coming from the direction of the land on the way out. We arrived to find the transformer, but no meter, and no electricity.

The crew had told Paul, our contractor, that they were short a man and couldn't finish the job that day. Gerald called APS and was told that the crew had called and said it was snowing and they had to quit. It wasn't. The APS office called the crew back, but they didn't do any more work. They said they had guys on overtime who couldn't work any more and left. When Gerald called APS again, the guy in the office said he had found a way around that problem, but the crew didn't take it. We decided they must have just wanted to be off by noon.

We were a little worried about our power situation. It had been overcast, so the battery in the travel trailer, which we have hooked up to a solar panel, didn't have much juice and we worried about keeping heat that night.

While we were gone, Paul had relocated a couple of boulders to hide a 500-gallon propane tank that was to be delivered on Thursday.










The vanity was also in place in the guest bathroom, and Paul was at work on the shower pan.











Meanwhile, Gerald hung the pocket doors in the guest bathroom and laid out the kitchen cabinets, so we could get an idea of what the kitchen would look like.