Ice Storm Concluded

Well, power is back up around the area and, more importantly, at my own home! Here's how it played out:

Saturday morning we woke up at Cathy's house to find that her power had gone out. Bummer! We hung out for a little while, made a run to Stewart's, and enjoyed the fireplace. Then we went home to get a change of clothes and see if we had any fish left alive. Surprisingly, the two ciclids and the convict were still kicking, so Joe dumped them in a juice bottle and we took them with us to our next destination: my inlaws!

We spent the night on Saturday, watching movies and hanging out. On Sunday morning around 11am I tried my phone and...the answering machine picked up! Hurray!! So we zoomed back home. Joe cleaned out the fish tank and put our survivors back in there. We straightened up the house, then went to Oneonta for groceries and to finally get our Christmas tree. And boy, it was great to be back home in my own bed!!

And to top things off, I took Xander to the doctor yesterday and he's got strep throat. No school for him today! Hopefully he and Joe will have the lights and garland on the tree when I get home, so we can get right to the ornaments. And please send good thoughts our way that our power won't go out again!!