Month: February 2021

First let us start with the statement that this has been a very difficult time for Texas.  Much of what you see on TV is true.  Many people have been impacted by the cold weather.  We are lucky and realize our good fortune.  All we can do is accept what happens with grace and humor.

Today began with power out again.  The rolling blackouts don’t really roll for us.  They just come to our house and stay for 9 hours or so.  So here are some tips that we have learned over the last few days since we have had a lot of time to sit around and think in the dark.

• Some people are able to sleep on the floor longer than others.
• Debbie upgraded her shoes
• Larry can wash his hair with one handful of water and it doesn’t look to bad – Debbie really dislikes this
• Debbie is thinking of trying dreadlocks.
• Girl Scout cookies are emergency food
• Girl Scouts will ship cookies directly to you
• South Africa used to have rolling blackouts 10 years ago and they were a 3rd world nation.
• United States Postal Service creed. The words “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” – doesn’t seem to be true.  We haven’t seen a postal worker in awhile
• The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) needs to change their name

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Tuesday was an auspicious day.  We began the day with power thus hot chocolate. We did not have internet access so I busied myself making faux-Uggs.

I began to work on the jigsaw puzzle and discovered it is 3 dimensional . I discovered the white side is the back of a puzzle piece and not a piece of the picture.  I found that it makes a big difference if you put the puzzle together in the light and are not sulking about power outages. 

Larry came up with a new water collecting project.  We sat buckets out to collect runoff water for the toilets and tried not to slip in the ice.

Today, we began eating meals out of the freezer and led with potato soup for dinner.  On the downside, I had peanut butter and crackers for lunch again.

I can not live off the grid.

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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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