No power

Thursday night we lost power and we did not get it back until Saturday night. Interestingly, B, D and I played a board game which we have not done in a very long time.

We had been told that we could be without power for up to a week. Saturday D and I began a frantic search for a generator along with 100,000 other people desperate for heat to keep their pipes from freezing. My nephew works at Home Depot and he was able to get us a really nice generator. I spent the rest of the day running around trying to find the parts to make the cable that would tie the generator into the house and after visiting seven hardware stores I had everything I needed to power up our house. As I pulled into our neighborhood I noticed some people had power back. Turning onto our street the brightly lit houses signaled the return of electricity to our area. I was happy to have power back but a bit disappointed that I could not complete the generator mission.