We rarely get snow before Thanksgiving but Mother Nature did it with a vengeance this year! We only got about 11″ but it was very heavy wet snow and the trees, especially the oaks, had not lost their leaves yet. Bad with any snow but fatal for too many of them this time. And, of course, they took out the power lines. It was cold and wet and dangerous out there but the guys at PUD worked through it all to get us back to our normal easy life of lights and dishwashers and all that other stuff that makes modern life more pleasant and I’m sure we all appreciate their hard work. Especially if you’ve seen some of the stuff they had to deal with! For instance…

     And these were all taken in our immediate neighborhood. Randy cut 4 trees out of Coffee Creek road so that PUD could get up here. The county got here first as PUD had much more work and harder to get to as well. But the guy driving the plow was happy to have that done, he only had to push the pieces off the road, did not have to get out of his warm cab to cut them himself!  At least not here. There was a big mess at the intersection of CC rd and the highway. I didn’t hike down there to get that photo.

But it was a couple days that Randy had to work at getting us out as we had three oaks across our driveway! The one still standing may have to come out, too, as it is leaning  much more after having the other three fall on it. But we’ll give it a chance and see if it can straighten itself up a bit.

Randy says the good part is that we already have a lot of next years fire wood! I won’t say things are back to ‘normal’ but we were really happy when the power came on last night and the dishwasher started up where it had left off and just about every light in the place came on! including my plant light at 89 pm to start the day for the houseplants. I unplugged that and will reset things today.

Now I have to get the little turkey out of the freezer to start thawing for The Feast! I have to go to Redding the day before thanksgiving to get my shoulder scanned so Sara can find out what to do about that painful issue. Old age is just as much fun as I was told it would be. That’s to say, it does have it’s ‘perks’ but by and large it is not comfortable! lol My Great Aunt Ada said that whoever called it the Golden Age had not lived it!

Well, there are looms to make now that the shop if warming up and bit and there are lights and power for tools. so I guess it’s time to get at it, back to the routine! Just not I’m loving that old rut! Hope your week goes smoothly and you get to share with lots of family and friends!