Will be using containers in the Garden for more plantings as well as Hydroponics in the basement.Be the first time for both. Be interesting to see how this turns out.

Clean up outside delaied due to frozen ground. Same with the compost piles cant turn them yet.

Wife got the maple sap collection going, the syrup will rock out. Wife is moving  head with he Hen Pecked City Chickens Idea.

Even FEMA saids that is not going to happen we must be able to help ourself as much as possable. From time to time I will talk about very basic ideas to at least get one started.

Myself I think the time is coming that we will need to be prepared or its good night nurse.

This is not hard not expensive but requires thought and work

More to come

According to the company, the 345 kV Arrowhead-Weston transmission line does the following:

- strengthens electric system reliability by bringing 600 MW of electricity into northern and central Wisconsin;

- provides an alternate source of power for the region, increasing transfer capability and stability to the electric system;

- allows utilities greater participation in the regional energy market;

- gives green energy greater access to consumer markets;

- is more efficient and reduces energy losses over the 40-year life of the line, saving 5.7 million MWh hours of electricity; and

- provides $62 million in direct payments to the communities through which the line passes over the 40-year life of the line.

Construction of the line was completed ahead of schedule, allowing ATC to energize the line four months early, in January. All costs have been finalized, and ATC closed its books on the project, notifying the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) that the final cost was $436 million, within the 5% allowable contingency set by the PSCW.

SOURCE: American Transmission Co.