At 9:05 p.m. I sat by the wood stove. I had just let the dogs out. I heard water trickling and didn’t think too much of it because Rick had just taken a bowl of hot water upstairs to wash with. I went to let the dogs in and noticed that the light in the garage was on.

Whoa… light? That trickle of water? The kitchen faucet that I guess must have been left on.

Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let there be light.

And electricity.

And heat.

And cable. (maybe?)

And wireless internet.

And love.

Giving thanks to the power Gods tonight.

GOOD NIGHT!


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I think this might be the root of our problem:















Our street is the only one accessible because of this “minor” problem! It’s been like this for days now. The new estimate for us having power has now been moved to Thursday sometime. Until I see them working on this I won’t get my hopes up too much. This scene is played out all over the county.

Yesterday I heated water on the wood stove and washed my hair and took a sponge bath. Rick went to work and showered there (lucky man!) I suppose I could go down and take one too but it’s a long way and the traffic is not good because so many roads are closed. If I had a job I would probably take advantage of the public showers but no one sees me during the day except the cats and dogs anyway.

It’s hard to imagine in my little post apocalyptic bubble, but just a few miles down the road life is going on like normal. People have power, the ShopRite is open and restocking all their frozen goods. I went there yesterday just to get out of the house and then drove around to charge my iPad! I will probably do the same today.

Here are a few scenes from around the house.

Any ideas I may have once had about losing power being romantic and exciting went out the window on the second day.


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We are home and without power. One of our neighbors was nice enough to snow-blow a portion of our driveway so we could get in and I managed to get in touch with the cat sitter before she came to the house so I could ask her to leave the house key in the mailbox so we could get into the house. Usually we use the garage door, but of course with no power that option was out.

We cooked a meal of spaghetti on two butane burners that we keep for emergencies. Two of our lanterns worked and the other one needed batteries. We lit plenty of candles. We also had oil lamps but we had purchased the wrong kind of fuel for them so they didn’t shed much light, so to speak. We slept with an added duvet for warmth.

It’s so quiet. Almost like an end-of-the-world scenario in our neighborhood. Our neighbors across the street bailed out and went down to the their house on the shore.

Rick has no power at work so he is at home today. I guess we’ll read, maybe put a puzzle together.

The food in our freezer is now starting to thaw, so I guess we’ll BBQ chicken breasts tonight and eat up the frozen veggies.

We didn’t lose any trees but several large limbs are down and scattered around. So, with that we were lucky.

Not sure when our power will be restored so I might not be blogging since the only way we have of charging our cell phones and our iPads (without them we wouldn’t be blogging or have email) is to start up the truck and plug them in one at a time.

Oh the joys of camping within your own home!


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But not snow! Even though this looks like snow it is in fact white sand. These photos were taken at White Sands Monument between Las Cruces and Alamogordo. Miles and miles of white gypsum sand dunes that are constantly shifting. More on White Sands after we get home.



If we were in New Jersey today, which Bigsis is right, we are not, we would be in the midst of a rare October snowstorm. Sigh. I’m missing it! I am pretty sure our limo driver will have to let us out at the top of our driveway and we’ll have to slog through at least a foot of snow tomorrow! So far today at 5:00 eastern time we’ve had five inches according to neighbor Kim who so nicely went over and put figgy inside our garage.

I think I’ve finally eaten my fill of mexican fare so it’s time to go home. We’ve had a great time and I’ve been given the royal family treatment.

Tomorrow we get up bright and early to catch our flight to Houston. Fingers crossed our flight won’t be delayed because of backups at the Newark airport due to the storm. We’ll catch up on the flip side back in New Jersey with more photos from New Mexico!

And probably more photos of white stuff. Snow in October!

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30 years. My how the years have flown by! It doesn’t seem like that long.

30 years ago today I married what would turn out to be my best friend even though I didn’t know it at the time. Sure I loved him, but I couldn’t see into the future. I couldn’t see all that we would come to share.

Here we are in all our early 80’s glory:

Happy Anniversary to my best friend!