on 12.8v Full charge and went down to 11.8v) light stayed on for (7 HOURS 2 min).” Dennis said before he told Dennis he was going to check on the ladies before he put the baked beans on to heat up and for him to watch the fire in the Stovetec while he was gone.
Dennis went in the backdoor and headed for the living room and kitchen. Monica and his mom were happily chatting recipes back and forth as they arranged the kitchen cabinets and filled boxes with pre designed meals they were agreeing on.
“Looks like you two are making lots of progress in here.” Dennis said as he entered the room.
“Yes, we unloaded the cabinets and wiped them out and are sorting out weekly meal boxes as we go. Sort of one can of corn in our box, one in Monica’s and one in the cabinet. Then we do the same thing with green beans and spam etc. After we separate a couple weeks worth for each of us we will put whatever’s left in the bottom cabinet. “Mary said.
“Yea we have been doing it one for me and one for you and one for the pantry.” Monica said in a sing song voice smiling.
“That sounds like a plan. We have a bit more than I thought or are these boxes ones you haven’t gone through yet?” Dennis asked.
“ No those are weekly boxes, we figured we may as well do it all and see where we stand. Monica is doing the inventory and weird one of the kind things like a box hamburger helper or whatever is being set to the side as community day meals or something. How are you all doing?” Mary asked.
“Well that’s why I came in, Charles and I got side tracked for a minute playing with my crank-a-watt and I had an idea about all that meat. If you don’t mind I need to look at that FoodSaver vacuum sealer for a minute.” Dennis said waiting for them to exit the small kitchen which all though had full size appliance it always reminded him of a ships galley in size.
“Let’s see here” Dennis thought as he picked up the FoodSaver and looked at the manufacturer’s specification plate. Damn! Nobody ever lists watts on things, ok it says 1 .1 amps so that times 120 volts gives me about 120 watts. Cool I thought it would pull a lot more power than that. Crank-A-Watt time!” Dennis thought with a small smile.
“Ladies I have a suggestion, let’s just eat some sandwiches for breakfast instead of a big meal. I just thought of a few projects that need doing and if we glut ourselves we are not going to want to do much more than nap. Charles and I have some technology tweaking to do, but we can use that FoodSaver to vacuum seal up that meat so it lasts longer. I am also going to freeze some of it today believe it or not.” Dennis said grinning like a Cheshire cat.
“How are you going to do that?” Monica and his mother began, before both of them waved him off before they got a long diatribe about Dennis’s latest prepper alternative energy scheme. They knew he would get whatever it was he was so impressed with himself about done and they just soon be spared the details at the moment.
“You want me to fix you and Charles a sandwich or you coming in?”” Mary asked.
“I will see what Charles wants to do and then be back. Charles knows a bit more about electricity than I do and I might need his help.” Dennis said heading for the backdoor.
Dennis went outside and saw Charles getting himself another hot beer and told him to get him one too. Monica would probably be pissed off that they got to have a few beverages while she was stuck inside with his mom but she would probably sneak out later.
“Damn, this beer could be iced down if he wasn’t worried about his mom nagging at him.” Dennis thought and then dismissed the idea. It was to early in the new living arrangements to show his penchant for a good party no matter what. Besides, there was no chance he was going to let himself or Charles get snozzled today.
“ Hey Charles,I got a great idea I need some help with.”