Halloween Blizzard of Ot Twelve

 Had to trudge out into this Tuesday afternoon to get coal to burn to keep the house warm.

 A couple of dad's old vehicles.

 Bubbles seemed to enjoy it.

 Looking back towards the houses.

 this pine is just to the left of those two old trucks from a few pics ago

 Bubbles again

 This is the pine, and wood pile, from between the two houses

 another wood pile

 pine tree up close

 Bubbles and Goober

 Goober

 The paper boxes and pine grove across the road in front of our house

 looking down the road, a few broken trees

 looking up the road, and the mail box

 more pine trees

 a fence post

 where the pines give way to other types of trees

 up the road again, dogwood tree in front of the little house

some garbage cans beside the house

The power went out sometime very early Tuesday morning (October 30th), and finally came back on today (Saturday, Novmeber 3rd). With the exception of a couple of flash lights the fire place was our only source of heat and light for the past week. 

We kept the baby AND the bathwater*

This is my niece, Julia, and her baby boy, Romin Conner. I took these a couple of days after Stormageddon 2012, or whatever it’s being called. We had no power or water** and were struggling through 90+ degree heat (Fahrenheit). We hadn’t bought a baby pool yet but we got lucky and found a clean plastic tub. He seemed to like it, and at least one of us got a bath.

*We used it on the tomato plants.

**We had warning that the water was getting shut off so we had plenty of drinking water to use for his tubby. And we boiled it anyways to be sure.

So. God damned. Bored.

Another spilt second if power!

We just had a split second of power!

I think my pillows are betraying me.

Uh-oh, just heard a whole lot of sirens go down the 4lanes, couldn't tell which way.