Winter is Coming

On November 14 we experienced the Supermoon. This happens
when the moon is closer to earth in its orbit than usual, and the
moon is especially bright and large as seen from earth. This
and the next pictures were taken at 1:30 in the morning.

Supermoon

In late November the Inverter failed during the night
and we lost Power to the house. Because we are off-grid,
the inverter, together with the battery bank, is our power supply.
Without the inverter we could feed power into the house
directly from the generator, which we did for a couple
of hours every morning and evening. No power for the rest
of the day. Somewhat tedious.

This is part of the inverter, the electronics that control everything.

Taking the inverter apart. The culprit was the
power unit, the clear metal box in the cabinet.
We finally received a replacement power unit
2.5 weeks after the failure. Installed it and
it is running again.

Evening by candle light.

Judy sings in the Pender Island Choir. This picture is from one
of the evenings of the Choir's public Christmas Concerts.
In addition to the choir, there were also performances of the
Youth Choir, the Youth Orchestra, and a superb Youth Violin Group.

The first snow of the season. More is coming tomorrow.
BC is in the grip of an arctic outflow. We are glad to have
a good wood burning stove to keep us warm.

The driveway can get icy in the winter. Fortunately this happens
seldom. To be safe, we decided to park the car down in the forest
below the steep part of the driveway.