Current mood:

chipper

Keeping warm
The first few days of the power outage were actually kind of fun. We bought a fireplace grate and discovered that our wood burning fireplace worked very well. We got out the candles and enjoyed a few evenings by candle light. Our downstairs fireplace had a gas insert, and we kept that running continually. We have a gas hot water heater, so we had hot water. I left the tub full so that the heat from the hot water would radiate out into the room. I put jars of warm water in the tank containing Katie's betta Minty to keep him warm. It worked, sort of, keeping the tank water in the sixties.

During the day, I put my mighty Florian pruners to work, cutting dead branches out of fallen trees. There were a lot of those. The down side was that I could only cut branches up to 3", and they burned quickly. But pre-cut firewood was hard to find. We were really doing quite well. I even refrained from bothering the power company except to report that our neighborhood was out of power. Surely they would get to us as soon as possible.

Hah! Little did I know....

Next Rock: Looking Up at the End of My Rope


Happy New Year, everyone!