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Dec. 1, 2006
What a Week!
After my last post, I was looking forward to spending some time on Monday visiting my friend's blogs. We had gotten off schedule the previous week due to the Thanksgiving holiday and, although I had managed to create a couple posts, I hadn't had time to visit anyone.
Well, the snow subsided over Sunday night, but Monday morning it started snowing in earnest. At 10:35 a.m. Monday morning the power went off. I was glad I had gotten the house warmed up because it was cold outside. Monday wasn't too bad. The snow was bright and made the house brighter than normal. Our freestanding gas stove seemed to be keeping the temperature up in the lower part of the house and we had water for the first half of the day until the well's holding tank went dry. The kids played outside building a snowman and forts, running in the snow and rolling down the septic mound. I took the babies outside. Jaguar loved the snow, but Kinkajou wanted me to carry her. Monday evening sitting by the fire, we sang Christmas carols and songs that I sang in college when I was in the Navigators. This was really fun.
Tuesday morning came and went with no power. We had to get out. The house was colder. The kids, less interested in snow, were wrestling and playing wildly. As I pulled onto the main road past our street, I found the problem: downed power lines and no one working on them in sight. We drove to a shopping center a half-hour drive away. I didn't need much, just something to do. Not wanting to go home, I finally drove to a McDonald's with a large play area and let the kids play for an hour. After dinner out (I did not want to cook in the dark), we came home to a very cold house (the temperature outside had dropped to about 13 degrees and the stove was not keeping up). More Christmas carols and we camped out in the living room.
Wednesday morning, still no power. The electric company said it would be restored by noon. By now it seems that we will be living like this forever. I work on math with Zebra, but neither of us are in a good mood. At noon, our Awana president calls to cancel Awana for that evening and when she hears we have no power she invites us over to play for the afternoon and she also offers me a shower. We eat lunch and just as though it never had left, the lights came back on. Time to run that dishwasher before going to our friends.
Thursday and Friday were spent catching up with the house and e-mails (I had 81 yesterday).
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Dec. 2, 2006 - Untitled Comment
be blessed [even more]
Miss Meg