June 12 – Waiting in Bottleneck

We passed our storm day in Bottleneck lazily. It was too rainy and windy to paddle in the kayaks so we were boat bound.

Anticipating this outcome, Marcia prepared bread dough the day before to bake in the toaster oven while the generator was recharging batteries today. We have a 9KW generator but the inverter/charger uses less than 2KW for charging.  Generators run most efficiently when loaded 60% – 80% of capacity so we added resistance loads like the toaster oven and an electric space heater to increase the load factor.

As usual, the bread Marcia prepared came out wonderfully crusty. She uses a “no-knead” recipe we got from the New York Times in 2006. Besides the bread, as an extra treat, Marcia made some chocolate chip cookies.