Almost back to normal

Before

After

We heard the welcome sounds of wood chippers and chain saws on West 13th Street this morning. The mountains of limbs and branches are gone! If you look past the wood chips in the street, you'd think nothing disastrous had happened around here.

The leftovers for the fire pit.

More good news....we had a full day of everyone at 98.6 yesterday! We celebrated with s'mores on the terrace. Any excuse for chocolate, right?

Winter Storm 2009

Sorry about our long absence. November, December and January were really busy. I got distracted. Anyway, we've survived the storm of the century. On that Monday, I saw that the Weather Channel guy was in Paducah, and I actually thought, "Well, it's a shame that he's come all the way out here for nothing." Silly me. Then Sheri called to make sure we were prepared and I started to wonder if a big storm was coming. Hmmmm....

The new Kentucky greeting goes something like, "Hey there! Got power?"

We stuck it out for a couple of days, but once it got down into the 30s indoors, we took off for Lexington. I don't think I've ever appreciated a warm shower like I did that night. Being warm and clean all at the same time....aaahhhh.....heavenly. We got to visit with Melissa and she introduced me to a great store. We spent some time with Josh.

There's a mall in Lexington with a great play area. Avril made friends with a large duck - one of her few friends that any of us can see. She has some geese, an elephant and a red girl bird, or so she tells us. Two days ago, she informed me that she had put seven of her fish friends in my washer, because they were dirty. "Don't worry," she said, "Dirty fish aren't very bitey." Good to know.

Alex celebrated being warm.

The pictures really don't convey what it was like. It was really beautiful with the ice, especially when the sun would come out. But it was awful, too. It seems like every tree -and we have lots of them - is broken. I hope they look much better when they get leaves.


Now every house has its pile of limbs and sticks. There's always an upside. Folks around here won't take heat and food for granted for some time. We're all stocked for firewood for quite a while. Utility workers from anywhere are our heroes. If you're a generator sales person, business had a huge up-tick in January.