It's All About The Cake

OK, blow out the candle already and let's eat! Happy 23rd birthday David!

A Day at the Bay

A lovely day at Green Turtle Bay. I'm so looking forward to warmer weather. Maybe next week? We've paid our price with the recent ice storm so now we are looking for our prize of warm sunshine, birds breaking into song, and flowers beginning to pop their heads out for a look around.

Aunt Deane's New Monkey

The original Aunt Deane had her own monkey and now I have mine. Granted Aunt Deane's monkey was alive and could play pranks, but I bet mine will be just as much fun. My Bette brought this to me from her trip in Costa Rica. During the recent ice storm, the only cell call I could get through was to Bette's phone. She told me that she and Dad were sitting on a river in the middle of nowhere Costa Rica surrounded by monkeys. "What do you want me to bring you from my trip?" Bette asked. "A monkey!" said I.

Zero to Sixty

Thursday night it was near zero, last night (Saturday) it was 53. And today it is near 70. Don't get me wrong, I am grateful for the warmer weather. It means the power company might be able to get our power on. Tomorrow will be two weeks without the elixir of the gods, the technological wonder, electrical power. Generators have been our friends, keeping the home fires burning so to speak and our phones and computers running the last few days. As you can see in the photo above, our generator running our office, the broken tree in the background and our bulletin board with our Valentine plans which are on hold now until we find out if the power is coming back on in time. The paper had a story this morning about an ice storm that hit Paducah 107 years ago on the exact date. Same thing. 2" of ice, power outages, and the like. They are saying our power grid was in worse shape than when Katrina hit the Lousiana area. Our power company says they have as many as 2800 poles down. And we have 12-15 power companies in our region. Wow.

Camping on Ice

Western Kentucky has been experiencing the worst ice storm of probably the last 100 years. Unreal the damage that has occured and it's almost entirely from lack of electric power and trees falling down. The sound of the limbs cracking under the strain of the ice the was eerie to say the least. It sounded like rifles going off everywhere, crrrraaaacck! Then "crash"as they fell. And fall they did, across power lines everywhere. We are now into our 6th day without power and no telling when it will be restored. A propane tank heater has kept us warm and a new generator lets us run lights and satellite TV, refridgerator, etc. If I would have known I was going to go on an extended camping trip, I would have packed a better. Patience is the word for the day as we wait for power trucks to come to our area.