Breaking wind

18 hour power outage. It's starting to turn into Lord of the Flies around here. No fridge. No stove. No heat. No tv. No hot water. No shower since Saturday. No phone. No internet. Nearly everything in my life depends on things electronical. I'm having flashbacks to last winter when I lived through the remodel in similar conditions. Such is progress. Time to haul out the camping equipment.


70+mph winds took down my next door neighbor's red cedar tree. It took down some power lines and shorted out all the street lamps on the block. Thank goodness it missed their house by mere feet. I will count the tree rings when I walk Preston tomorrow.


Angels trumpet tree leaves have all been stripped off. Naked angels.


What a mess.


Everything wound up at the bottom of the pool. Sigh.


My old microwave cart commited suicide by jumping into the pool. I had the unfortunate task of fishing out the body.


Another casualty of the wooden type. Thankfully, Preston was too scared to run away. Wouldn't leave his bed.


No power, no tv, hungry, and stinky. So I carved most of the afternoon. Good excuse not to work behind a computer. Though, I have to admit, I did have wifi working by connecting the modem and wireless gateway to my camping battery generator. But I'm using the power outage as an excuse not to work.