When you live on the mountain, you get used to power glitches. Whenever the wind blows, a rain storm comes through, or if you have a cloudy day, the power glitches. It’s upsetting when you’re trying to make meals and you have an electric stove. It is worse when you know that every power glitch means you need to reset the heating system. We have a woodburner in case the power ends up being a power-outage, but that doesn’t happen often. During the first snowstorm of the season, we had several glitches. My husband had already prepared the generator so it was ready if the power went off and stayed off. It was so cold in our house that I could see my breath in the morning, but we were still hesitant to turn the furnace on. We had the wood burner burning slowly to aid the furnace, which we knew would need to be turned on soon. When the power went out and stayed out for two days, I felt bad for all the people who didn’t have a generator, woodburner, or fireplace. Our woodburner was keeping our house comfortable, and we didn’t need to worry about frozen pipes. I saw our neighbor heading into town and asked how they were faring? He said they were going to the hotel because their space heaters were out of kerosene. I offered to let them come to our house, but he refused. I went back into the warmth of my house, and sat in front of the woodburner to get warmed up after being outside.