Ann put this on Facebook, and it is so fun I thought I would share.
More bad weather…more ice…no school…blah blah blah blah….
This is the reality:
This is where my head is:
We are talking about going to Okracoke this summer. We loved it there so much, and we had such a good time. We are going to try to go for at least a few days. Sun, sand, more sun…..no snow…no snow….no snow.
I am still snowed in. Seems I could get my four-wheel drive down the road, but I would never get back up. So, when Ann comes home this afternoon, I will walk down and meet her, and then we will walk up.
It is sunny and the sky is blue, but it is still cold.
The chickens are insulated with snow. They are just fine.
I just may have to put my Christmas lights back up. I don’t know when we will dig out of here. I am doubting we will see schools opened until mid week. Ann is still in Cherokee with no power, but says it is coming up the road. I hope so.
I kept busy mastering Mario on Wii. I made two batches of cookies, but have will not bake them until tomorrow, and I made a batch of dog biscuits. I baked them, but then I shut the oven off, and they sit in the oven and dry all night. The dogs like them a lot.
I also took bird photos.
We did not get out foot of snow….yet…and it is only spitting some sleet right now. They say we can get one to three inches of icy mix, but we shall see.
Here is some humorous irony. Ann stayed in Cherokee last night so that she could actually get to work. She and a friend got a hotel room across from the casino. They would have stayed in the casino hotel, but it was all booked. Anyway, they went to dinner and then went to settle into their room. Guess what? Power went out. Even the casino lost power, and it was still without power this morning. The casino has generator back up, but it does not have it for its hotel. Their hotel never got the power back either, as of this morning anyway. I think that is funny. I spoke to them a few times last night and they were having the time of their lives.
Here at Possum Manor:
I am cooling some oatmeal for the chickens. I read they like a nice warm bowl of oatmeal on a cold day, and who am I to deny them?
The old coop is buried. Good thing the chickens are in the new and improved coop.
Want to come over for lunch? We could eat out on the deck.
When I woke up this morning, one of the cats was throwing a toy in the air and chasing it. He was having such a good time, until I realized it was a dead bird, and I took it away. Ugh.
Three in the afternoon:
Four hours later:
I think we have about six inches already. One of the cats made the design in the snow. Our electricity popped off once for a second, but it came right back on.
We are supposed to get a massive dumping of snow AGAIN. I have prepared, but do hope we do not lose power like the last time. If we keep power, I have plans to make dog biscuits, oatmeal cookies, soup, and orange marmalade. If we lose power I have plans to not panic, and just relax. Hahahaha Me relax?
If there is power when I get up in the morning, I am going to make a big thermos of hot tea. Then, if we do lose it doing the day, I will still have something warm to drink. I have two full canisters of propane for the grill, so I should be able to cook. I will find a tranquilizer and have it setting out.
I do not worry about food or water or the dogs or cats or chickens. I think I will cope better than I did the last time.
So, if I can blog during the day, I will. If you see nothing tomorrow, you will know I have no power. I think Gena is even suppose to get this storm, and she is four or five hours away.
….to delay school two hours. I like those mornings because they are calmer than the normal rush. Just once I would like to know about the delay before I get up. I watched the scrolling closings at the bottom of the television screen until about 5:20, and when we still were not posted, I got up. I had fed the cats and turned on the coffee pot when the notice appeared. I shut the coffee off and went back to bed.
Brando hates delayed openings because it delays his access to the bed.
I have to remember to make up the bed when I get out, because he does not always wipe his feet.
It was pretty, and the roads were not bad at all.
I keep looking for signs of spring. Ann says I have a few more months; I do not want to hear it. I am planning flowers everywhere!!!!
And lots of it. The almost two feet of snow melted and made the ground spongy. Now we have had a lot of rain, and the ground has had trouble absorbing it. We have become mud farmers once again. We have many layers of road bond on our driveway, but you would not know it. We will need many more.
The dogs bring it in.
The cars get stuck in it.
That is a picture of a rut in the driveway, though it looks like the back of an alligator.
The chickens were getting wet, so I went out and tacked a tarp. I heard the rooster crow this morning, which is no big deal except I had not heard him since we moved them.
This was a good weekend, in spite of the rain. Friday night I slept ten hours, which might go into the book of records. I ran errands, and I made a good dinner. Slept another long night. Today I feel like a million bucks. I went to the gym, made a batch of peanut butter balls, two loaves of low fat banana bread, 10 grain bread, and pizza dough. Ahhh, a good day. I think I might now play Mario on the Wii.