A House In A Field
The story of a house. In a field. And how it gets there.
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Math is your heating friend.
After “who designed your house?” and “who picked the colors?” the third question that we’re invariably asked about Dash Landing runs along these lines — “How’s the heat bill?” After receiving today’s Central Maine Power bill (Greeting Comrades!), the answer…
Read MoreCMP Customer Satisfaction Survey
We received a CMP Customer Satisfaction survey this week. ———-
Read More“It appears that rural electrification is going on, steadily and as rapidly as the market can take it.” Lewiston Evening Journal, December 9, 1935
On August 19th of last year — while we were still trying to decide if we were going to buy the property — a contractor stood on the site and casually mentioned “Have you thought about electricity?” Which we hadn’t….
Read MoreWe are at a loss for words. (But we’ll come up with some eventually.)
No power yet, but these comrades spent a lovely day on Dash Landing yesterday.
Read More“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other” – Trotsky
Even after all we’ve been through with Central Maine Power over the past 291 days, those crazy comrades in Augusta never cease to amaze us. Annoy us? Oh, yes. Perturb us? Absolutely. Yank out our rapidly greying hair in giant…
Read MoreSadly, This Counts As Progress. The Sequel.
Comrades! We are both surprised and delighted to announce that the offending utility pole has now been moved. For those of you new to our little project in the field, here’s a quick recap : August 20, 2012 – First call…
Read MoreA Ditch Filled With Optimism, Rainbows and Unicorn Smiles.
You probably can’t tell from where you’re sitting, but this ditch is overflowing with optimism, rainbows and unicorn smiles. Nine months — almost to the day — since our first call to Central Maine Power, we’re seemingly no closer to…
Read More“I am the leader of the pole people”
Steve received an interesting call at work this week. First some background. As a couple of you will remember from this post, CMP gave us three options to route electricity to Dash Landing. We chose to come the long way…
Read MoreWire on a pole.
Visited the site earlier in the week and were a bit surprised to see both guidelines and wire on our precious utility poles. We’ve since found out that it’s a Fairpoint telephone line. (Their call later that week asking if…
Read MoreFasterer and Fasterer
The installation of utility poles down Lower Mast Landing appears to have unlocked powers beyond our imagination. On Tuesday, we met another CMP field engineer to discuss the process of bringing the power line to the site. Measured the driveway…
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