Most people say that when they just landed some cash. Or jumped in a tinted body of water on Saint Pattys Day.

Not us.

This is our cheery morning greeting when our batteries have held their charge all night and the dial on the panel points into the green zone.

Mind you, the lower green is not so good, that’s just 25-50% charged.

The upper green is another story — 75-100% charged.

And the next zone, the white area, is super-charged. Now that’s when we celebrate and do our happy dance!

Yesterday we installed the Breeze Bandit, a wind scoop that catches the wind from any direction and dumps it into the boat. It was awesome last night, constant breezy sleeping weather.

When you’re living off the grid, as we have for the last two weeks, you conserve your power and hope for sunny days and windy nights. So far so good. When the solar panels can’t help us, Wendy the wind generator kicks in.

She’s probably our teachers pet because she does her thing, stops herself if we don’t need her effort, and proudly reports the amps she’s producing continuously and every 24 hours.

Not that we keep up with Miss Efficiency’s data dump. The four solar panels report nothing except a blinking light, which we think is a good thing. Or is it supposed to be solid?

We don’t think their regulator is accurate because either way it looks, we are in the green.

Today it’s blowing 15-20 knots. Go Wendy go, go! We want the white zone!