first fire

As you already know we had very high winds in our area which resulted with us having pine trees destroyed in our yard.  In addition, we also lost our electric power for three days, along with cable television and phone service. Madison was here when we first lost those services and she just could not understand why the TV wouldn’t work.  She kept wanting to ‘fix the tv with the remote (‘mote as she calls it).  She didn’t have to stay here very long because we took her home to stay with her sissy Olivia.

I happened to be on the phone when I noticed that the trees were laying across the road and not standing upright as they should have been.  My mouth popped open with some words that I don’t even recall according to my sister-in-law Tonnie.  It didn’t take long for the cable to go off and because my phone is connected to the cable we also lost phone service.  Next the electric power went down because of trees and a ‘power pole’ that had broken just a short distance from our house.

From 11:30 a.m. Wednesday until 11 a.m. Friday we survived without TV, phone and electricity and as a result our house which is normally heated with a heat pump began to get really chilly.  Actually it got rather cold…normal temperature is set on 70 degrees and it got down to 50 degrees.  I suppose that wasn’t so bad considering that the outside temperature for two nights was 13 degrees.

Rick decided that we needed to use the fireplace insert and so he went outside in the cold and found several logs to use and we also used a couple of logs that I had gotten to use just for show from my Aunt Eleanor.  And…noooo… he did not use the pine wood because it was too wet.  We did have a problem however, because I wanted to watch the fire (I’m still a kid at heart), and the house filled with smoke really fast.  We ended up having to go to the bedroom and shut the door just to be able to breath.  Had we stayed in the room with the fire we probably would have been singing in that ‘angle chorus’ by the next morning. 

It was an interesting three days for sure.  We did have water, but we visited Tami each day for our showers because a cold shower just was not appealing.  We hope and pray that we don’t have to experience this type of situation again any time soon, but if we do, there will be no more watching the fire.  The doors will be kept shut and we will just enjoy the warmth.