Beats me why Americans never figured out how to make good chocolate. The Germans and the Dutch have it down pat. To get to our homestead , you drive on a gravel road. Don't confuse a gravel road with a dirt road . The two are quite different.
Dirt roads are impassable in spring.
The network outage was no big deal . After all, it wasn't all that many years ago that it took a day just to get to town, buy supplies, and get back. And that only happened a few times a year. Lots of socket not connected errors today. I just can't get from here to there quickly and reliably most of the time.