Off Grid Living: Stage One, Electricity
Our lovely Frog Pond When we bought the house, our biggest concern was getting it up and running. If you've read my earlier posts you know that as of taking possession of the house we essentially had a concrete bunker. The whole structure including the roof is made of concrete. Tabla rasa. And upon Thomas' first visit as Caribbean home owner to the house in December 2015, after having gone on a shopping spree in Santiago, he had a small refrigerator with invertor technology (a must!), a small microwave and a queen-sized mattress that he put on the floor, he had to live a very Spartan life...(Remember he had a week to get things up an running for my arrival!) There were no toilets as you recall and the pool was a very popular frog pond for all the romantic rendezvous of the local amphibian population. Indeed, it took several months to convince the local frogs to find a new place to call home. Eww... But, eventually, they are living elsewhere. After many visits and s