Simple Pleasures Often Overlooked: Part 2

Reader Contribution by Allan Douglas
Published on February 23, 2015
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I placed the light where I thought it would do the most good and plugged  it in to the extension cord. There is one exterior outlet on the mobile home and that was my intended power source, but when I got the cord run to it over firewood piles and through the porch filled with straw bales and construction lumber, I found that the outlet cover had slid down the siding and partially blocked the outlet inside so that the end of an exterior extension cord would not fit. It was 4 degrees outside: I could not budge the cover now. I needed an alternate power source. 

There is an outlet inside the garage that serves as a lumber shed, but that was too far away. There is a 100-foot extension cord in the small barn where I store yard maintenance equipment, but after the ice storm, the padlock and the door will be all iced up. My only viable choice was to run the cord inside the workshop though the sliding glass door. The cord will keep the door from closing and that will let some bitter cold air inside, but it can’t be helped at the moment.

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