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I got to thinking about all the little things we take for granted and that make our daily lives so much more pleasant.

For example: We live on a remote street that does not have natural gas supply or a sewage system. So instead, we use propane gas to heat our hot water and cook. Likewise, we have a septic system – which I will describe below. To have neither of these conveniences would make life much less bearable.

Natural gas: We discovered, by accident, that our propane supplier went out of business. How did we discover this? We are on an automatic re-fill program. My wife asked me: “...