January 30th, 2009

We had an ice storm this week. Pics are from a break in the weather tuesday afternoon. Tuesday night we had much more ice and the power went out. Wednesday was too dangerous to get out and about because trees and power lines were snapping.

Yesterday (thursday) we started to thaw and ice chunks were falling out of the trees like rain! I'm very fortunate to have power back already. In the northern part of the state 230,000 still without and they're saying it'll be weeks till it's all fixed.

January 15th, 2009

Fifteen days into the new year and this is my first post! There's just nothing interesting going on and nothing interesting to take photos of. It's winter. Right now we're having a cold front, 1p.m and it's 18 degrees. Tonight expected to be somewhere between 3 and 8. Brrrr! Me and the dogs are staying in the house where it's toasty warm with the woodstove going.

I found someone willing to cut up my downed trees for firewood so on the good weather days we've been doing that. Here's a pic down in the garden from a month ago....

And then about 2 weeks ago.........

Since then we've cut up a few more - only 10 or so to go - yay!