I'm Back From the Land of Darkness!

Monday was my little guy's 13th birthday.  My daughter decorated his cake.

The girls made us "Hurricane Hats" to ward off the storm.  It didn't work.

(I made that pink dress the weekend before, but wasn't pleased with the neckline.  It's in the "redo pile" now).

The kids went outside to dance in the warm wind around 11 PM.

But at 11:30, we lost power.  Someone forgot to tell the power company that we had our Hurricane Hats, and were safe from power outages.

This was the biggest damage we suffered: the loss of half of a pine tree.  There were lots of small branches down, 4 pickup truck loads, to be exact.  Gathering and burning them kept the boys occupied while we had no power.  We were not amused; to be exact, we were cold, grubby and cranky.

I did manage to keep myself calm by reading a book, Mary Stewart's Touch Not The Cat, by oil lamp.  I'm appalled that it took me 3 days to read a lousy 300 page book.

But the power did come back on Wednesday night; the neighbors across our back fence still have no electricity, and have been told not to expect lights before 11PM Sunday.  And the cursed storm really didn't even hit here!  I want a generator for Christmas.


Happy Weekending, everyone!