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December 10, 2007
It's always something!
A huge ice storm has been forecast for Castle Argghhh!
In preparation, I am baking and cooking - a cherrypie, a quiche, bacon, another quiche (we have a ton of very fresh eggs!) and I'm digging out the flashlights and candles and making sure the chickens and the horses and the guineas are well fed.
If we lose power - which, according to the news, is likely, all we will have is water - and I think we will have hot water, too, thankfully.
I figure we can warm things up to eat next to the fireplace or just build a campfire outside and cook there.
We have lots of quilts and blankets and it will be a snuggly, snuggly night!
Hopefully, they are wrong, and we will not lose our power, but tis better to be prepared than not!
So off I go, to get all the vittles for the possible darkness ready.
Posted by Beth at December 10, 2007 5:02 PM
Comments
Hang in there! It seems so surreal that you guys are having winter weather and it's still in the 80s down here...
Posted by: pam at December 10, 2007 7:04 PM
Beth, in covering the ice storm, we liked your spirit and cited your enthusiasm on our Daylife blog. We wish you luck & warmth, and hope you get power so you can visit us and update our readers with your personal experience. Oh, and if anyone knocks on your door looking for some warm cherry pie, sorry.
Posted by: Matthew at December 10, 2007 7:06 PM
Hope it doesnt' ice too much. Keet-Skating would be nice to blog though; albeit for the readers pleasure, and not the guineas.
Posted by: Boquisucio at December 10, 2007 7:36 PM
[...]Daylife adds: "Photos, First Ice Storm" .....So if you happen to live nearby Beth, you may want to give her a visit, seems she’s well-prepared. I don’t know Beth. I just read her post, so I can not speak for her altruism, but she at least had a positive spirit heading into this thing; we’ll have to follow up with her to see if snuggly ever became cold, frustrated, and tired. There can be a fine line between the two. In December of 2003, we were hit with 40-ish inches of wet, heavy snow and I lost power from Friday night through Monday evening. It went from snuggly to cold, frustrated, and tired in about 8 hours, or maybe less.[...]
Posted by: Matthew at December 11, 2007 9:10 AM
We loved ice storms in MO. We had the wood burning stove/furnace, food, water and
each other, to include the cat. Lotsa games, baking, sledding, eating, wood chopping and reading.
You will do fine, and like you say, better to be prepared than not. Rock on!
We did have a bit of a chuckle when we lived in MO about people who were worried (in the country no less) about their food supply when the power went out. Uhhhh...there's a ton of snow and ice and either coolers or cardboard boxes and tape, the outside makes a good fridge...especially when the high will be 39 for two weeks...
Posted by: Cricket at December 11, 2007 9:55 AM
Sounds like hurricane preparations! Only colder...much colder. I hope all is well. Snuggle and stay warm!
Posted by: Janette at December 11, 2007 10:46 AM