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December 14, 2007
IT'S FRIDAY, MY FAVORITE DAY!!
After the early Blazer game on Sunday we headed back home. Because the game started at 3:00 p.m. we figured we would be home around 8:00 that night. But as things always don't happened like you planned, the game went into overtime and we didn't get home until 9:30. It was dark going home so we couldn't get a very good look at all the storm damage. We were just thankful that the roads were open so that we could get through! When we left our place on Tuesday, the electricity was still out and when we got home Sunday night, the TV was going strong and a lot of lights were on! I had to throw out everything perishable that was in the refrigerator and clean up where some frozen berries had melted on the floor! The pictures show the river - with no island - getting kicked up by the wind; the tree that fell across our driveway; the outboard boat (with trailer) that was blown up against my greenhouse and the limbs that were impaled into the skin of the greenhouse by the wind.
We spent the three days that we were home this week cleaning up yard debris and Dave got the rest of the trees that had come down during the storm cut up with the chain saw and cleared out of the driveway. I propped up the fence that had fallen down and that will stay that way until we can get it replaced. We took a drive around town and saw a lot of damage. The railroad-crossing bar was a twisted mess and the landscape has changed dramatically with so many of the trees that had fallen from the storm. We feel very fortunate that we didn't have more damage than some of our neighbors had.
Wednesday it was back into town for a couple more games. The Blazers have ten home games during the month of December and so we will be back and forth a lot - spending a couple of days at home and a couple of days in town. On the way back into town, we could really see all the damage along the highway from the storm. When we added it up, we're only going to be home for seven days over the last three weeks of this month. There's not really a lot to do at home this time of year, so I don't mind all the work, but it's got to be the worst month for driving conditions all during the year. Every time we think about getting rid of the Jeep, we think of driving in December and change our minds. I don't think we've made a trip this month where we didn't have the rig in 4-wheel-drive at some point.
We decided to forego the Christmas tree this year because we have a game on Christmas day and won't even be home. I did manage to put up my little kitchen Christmas tree and a few decorations here and there, but not all of the stuff. I went outside and cut some cedar boughs and made a swag for the front railing on the deck. When we go back home tomorrow for a couple of days, we may put up a few outside lights.
Thursday morning we picked up Dave's new sport coat and pants for the Christmas party that we went to at the Waverly Country Club that night. Dave desperately needed some "dress-up" clothes that fit him. Somehow, the old clothes seemed to have shrunk while hanging in the closet! He told me that I could bury him in these new duds, but I told him that it was more fitting for him to be wearing that old raggedy sweatshirt and jeans that he lives in all the time! I got a new top to wear for go with my velveteen pantsuit and some diamond earrings (my Christmas present). My former employer invited all the alumni to a Christmas party at the Waverly Country Club and it is a "dress up" affair and so that was our excuse for the new clothes. I'll post more about it next week and include pics of us in our new duds.
Since we didn't have a way to download storm pictures from the hurricane in last week's entry, we are including them this time. That is what everyone has been talking about all week as the storm of the century. Some of these are kind of blurry, but - hey - the wind WAS blowing pretty hard, and it was tough to hold the camera still!
