A Good Article for this Time of Year
I just read mom’s latest article and it has a lot of good information. Many of you live in places where it gets very cold in winter, and all of us rely heavily on electricity. Here are some things to do if you lose yours.
She makes a reference in the article to when we were living in North Carolina and an ice storm knocked out our power for four days.
Our yard looked a lot like this picture, and we used our gas stove for cooking and heating the house kitchen. It was a bit miserable, but also makes for fun stories.
Like getting Hunter and Emma out of their beds and bringing them into our bed with us in the middle of the night. We started to hear the crash of trees falling all around us, followed by flashes of blue light from the wires they took down with them, and couldn’t leave the kids in their room, even if they were sleeping through it.
And having a family come over to take showers at our house by candle light (yes, I know it should have been by glow stick light) because their well wouldn’t run without electricity.
And having ice cream for breakfast, and chicken nuggets for dinner. I was most surprised at how nicely the chicken nuggets turned out by cooking them in a frying pan! I have some great pictures of the huge pine trees that fell literally right next to the house, one taking out our fence, and one breaking it’s top off when it hit our roof. Unfortunately, that was before the digital camera, so I can’t share them…
By the way, Utah clan: Has there been any talk of exchanging names for Christmas? If so, we want in!
Another excellent article, with some inovative ideas. Thanks for sharing.
I actually have some very fond family memories during the load-shedding on Guam after the earthquake. We had a lot of fun.
Mark and I want to exchange names for Chirstmas too.
Like every year, I don’t think anyone is NOT on board for a name exchange, but, rather, no one knows who should take charge. I think it needs to be done within the next couple of days. I can do it if no one objects.
If outsiders are allowed then I want in on the present swap. If not, somebody is REALLY missing out 😉
I nominate Holly to take charge! Maybe you could send us an e-mail or post our “assignment” on your blog. I was thinking of a $20.00 limit. Holly, you can pick a theme or whatever. How does that sound to everyone?
Sounds GOOD to me. The more time the better to shop and get things mailed off. Thanks Holly for taking charge.
Will do! Look for my post Wednesday or Thursday.