I always thought it would be nice to be warm and toasty inside while the snow drifted softly to the ground. I would stand at the window sipping hot chocolate and then go back to my jigsaw puzzle. I would be perfectly dressed in my uggs and matching winter wardrobe.
Recently, it has been brought to my attention that cold weather in Texas doesn’t work that way. This week every county in Texas had freezing weather.
We woke up Monday morning to a house with no power and some of our pipes not working. Larry had the fireplace started up – check for him. But the room was not really toasty, so I went to find my perfect outfit. I managed to come up with grey long johns, compression socks, black pants, a sweatshirt that I got flying first class (navy blue), gloves with no fingers, a pink long sleeve long john tops and a magenta hat that I seemed to want to wear like a beret. I did not have Uggs and had to substitute flip flops. The flip flops made me very sad – I would look really good in the Uggs. Fail on the matching winter wardrobe but I was dressed.
Next to the hot chocolate. No power so fail on the hot chocolate but I ate some chocolate bars as a substitute. I did have a jigsaw puzzle but it was too dark to work on the puzzle and 3-D.
Larry asked me what was wrong with me as I sat staring at my lunch. I responded that I was busy lowering the bar of my expectations.
Larry roused himself in the afternoon and came up with some projects. We cleaned out the refrigerator, placed the items in coolers filled with snow and left them outside in the 17 degree cold.
For dinner, Larry warmed up our leftovers on the grill outside. We drug a mattress to the front room with multiple quilts ready for bed at 9:00. I left my socks on. Snow is hard work.
At 1:30 AM the power came on, we crawled out of our quilt hovel and did a happy dance (Sans Uggs).
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We think this is heavy snow -
What’s with the hat? It’s either on or off. -
I can melt the snow with my mind. -
Weight Watcher’s Lunch – Has anyone ever seen me eat PB on crackers – NO, It was this or Vienna sausage -
This is a stylish boy – He probably has Uggs at home
I laughed, I cried, I anxiously await the next entry. Tell me more about your day to day trials and tribulations. Perhaps what you would’ve done differently.
-concerned from a state with snow
I sense that you may not be showing the proper respect for our trials here, in this state without snow.
I deeply respect and feel for the trials that people are coping with. As they say, we are all in this together.’
Glad to see that the chilly temps have not frozen your sense of humor! Impressed that you still have internet for posting your tales … just got ours back this morning. Our well was frozen for 2 days, and then we were without power for 24 hours (which means no water even though the well was no longer frozen). We’re back now, with no visible signs of actual damage. Can’t complain, there are so many others who are not doing as well.
I’m waiting to hear your thoughts on the irony of the name “Electric Reliability Council of Texas”.