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Electricity
On her third try, Deb has finally made contact with the right person in the CMP office and we’re now scheduled for a site visit on 8/30. The word from the assorted contractors is that CMP’s field...
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“That was today?”
Central Maine Power kills me. Today’s appointment was at 10:30 am. Review the site, discuss options for getting power, etc. We’d like to get a sense as to the financial commitment involved in...
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Three Options And A Plot Twist (The Britney Version)
First, the good news. Central Maine Power (aka CMP) showed up today and one of the field engineers was wearing Bean Boots. So we’ve got karma going for us. From there, it got more complicated. In...
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More driveway.
There’s yet another post underway about our “kremlin-esque” experience with Central Maine Power and Fairpoint, but — frankly — it wears us out. Let’s just look at how the driveway is progressing…. ‘
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We never lived in the former Soviet Union…
We never lived in the former Soviet Union. But Debbie likes thrillers from that time period and Steve had to read Nabakov at Bates, so we feel like like we’re eminently qualified to make the following...
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Sadly, this counts as progress…
Fairly quiet week on the home front. Lots of questions from the contractors (e.g “Are the cabinets in the MBR with or without doors?“), but overall fairly uneventful. With one small exception. Our...
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Fasterer 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...
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Wire on a pole.
Visited the site earlier in the week and were a 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...
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“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...
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A 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. The ditch of hope. Nine months — almost to the day — since our first call to...
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Sadly, 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,...
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“Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other”–...
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...
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We 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.
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“It appears that rural electrification is going on, steadily and as rapidly...
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?“...
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CMP Customer Satisfaction Survey
We received a CMP Customer Satisfaction survey this week. ———-
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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...
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