I'm getting a new hydro pole and this time, I don't have to dig the hole for it, like I did for the first one, many years ago. We're hiring someone else with a backhoe to do the job. Yippee! No more days and days of ramming a hole with an iron bar and carefully scooping out the hard pan, from a prone position, using a garden hoe. Yup, we've come a long way. We've entered the machine age.

We're also getting a standby generator! I'll be able to flush the toilet when the power goes out and not have to haul water for the horse. Ain't technology grand?