Gettin' Randy and Feeding the Hippo

Electrical update

We officially hired Randy to be our electrician!

Which means we are 3Gs closer to the poor house. Money well spent though- Randy is replacing our circuit breaker panel which looks like it came over to the new country with Columbus. He's upgrading our service to 200 amp (120 now) and adding a few grounded 3-prong outlets for our computer and tv. Being do-it-yourselfers (read 'cheap') we asked him what we could do to facilitate the process. He left us with a to do list:

Which led to this:

Then this:

And this:

Who does that lovely picture taking silhouette belong to?
Digressing...
And this:

And this:

On another electrical front, we don't feel like we pay Duke power enough as it so so we are giving them $1800 to bury our lines in the back yard. I tried to haggle with the monopolizing cold hearted hungry hippo on the basis that we are doubling the amperage use of the house, but unless we find a way to generate our own power (put the nieces and nephews in a hamster wheel when they come over?) Duke holds all the cards.
Long story short,
Power to the people - word.