Winter Notes.....We have Power Again...It's been a TRIP!! Generator etc. 300K without power.

 Gosh...where to begin.....the power went out... we had to haul out the generator and figure out how it worked (minus husband)....but before that....we went to bed with no lights and no heat........I actually gave up and went  to bed at 5 pm... my son saying "it's five pm!!!"  and I said....I don't  care.   I took my little battery operated book light and read a book bundled to the chin in TWO down comforters..... I got out of bed at around 9 am today.   We figured out the generator.....we figured out the refrigerator- (needed the generator to go faster) but I lost all the ice cream and a few other items..... and now the generator is FULL of gas so we need to run it till its empty.  No way to empty it.  

I carried a heavy bag of ruined freezer and fridge food out to the garbage men this morning.... they waited for me at the bottom of the driveway- I must have looked demented as they had worried expressions on their faces.

We also smell of gasoline.. but with the generator we got hot showers.....glorious hot showers.

But it's over for us and daughter got power back yesterday (did not share that info).......son was just sitting and reading emails when he looked out the window and said- "oh, Peggy has power"  and we both realized Peggy did not have a generator........so..we had POWER!!!!   He has now gone upstairs to chat with a friend in Las Vegas. to just clear his head.....this has been intense...for him...I just roll with  it after so many years of this CRAP.....I am calling the Generator People....putting out the big bucks for the whole house thing...... anyone buying this house will want to have a generator already installed.  Selling the small generator we have - someone will be thrilled to own it.

In the coming days we'll be cooking and baking and making detailed notes for the NEXT POWER FAILURE....as this is Maine.  So many old, sick, half dead trees lining the roads...tangled into the power lines....just waiting for a good 30 mile an hour wind storm....people died...hit by falling trees or a fall off their roof trying to remove a fallen tree....... tomorrow I think we are baking cookies.... but I will think about those father's, brothers and husband's... so very very sad.

I have one sentence- underground power lines...Please!!!!

And here I am writing to YOU!!!!  My friends from everywhere.......possibly watching the news and not seeing  posts and being worried.....so I am writing this like just minutes after the generator shut off. and the internet came back to us....I might actually watch some tv....it's been three days.....My neighbor with a generator filled my thermos with boiling water so I could make tea at home.......and offered me a hot shower......at her house  but bathrooms were the second rooms we put on the generator- after the boiler.. Priorities. A hot shower...necessary!!!

I haven't even started on my cards....I am guessing they will arrive in the New Year when and IF I get going on them..... it's very late....December 19th.  Time either moves very very slowly for me- or seems to skip ahead at blinding speed.....I feel  like I am moving out of step with everyone else.