Mother Nature threw her hardest at us, making the woods icy and magical...........
until...............
the power went out..........for 24 hours.........
and the trees started groaning and breaking.
This is the large tree in front of my vintage shop.
Small limbs and big branches........fell everywhere.
We have a total electric house.........so with no power.......no running water, no heat.
We do have a wonderful fireplace and we tossed what dry wood we had to keep it going. It made me reflect , as my husband and I sat in the quiet darkness, how simple the late nights were for those
"back in the day" when there was no electricity.
All over the grounds......tree branches are lying,
even some of the stoutest and biggest trees snapped
each wrapped in inches of ice.
we were fortunate that our power came on after only 24 hours. There were others who were without power for days. As we drove on a trip to Lubbock we counted 30 telephone poles in a row.....all snapped. I was very worried during our outage about my chickens and my greenhouse.
My chicken house has a layer of plastic over it with heating lamps inside. My greenhouse has a layer of plastic over it with a heater inside. I was just hoping that all would be okay after the heat went off.
The chickens were comfortable in the nests........slightly chilly however,
and my greenhouse flowers were still green and blooming.........
what a relief!
and then..........
the power came back on...........
and the sun said hello and smiled it's warm smile through the ice coated trees........
and if it couldn't get any better.......
my son flew in on leave for a short visit
and brought us a fresh pineapple
from Hawaii!
I decided to make an upside down pineapple cake..........
in my iron skillet!
If you would like this recipe, click onto the link below to go to my cooking blog!
Hope this finds you all safe and warm!
