Snowed In

The day before yesterday we got 2' of snow.  Fortunately, we've been spared a power outage. Though Dominion did have to come out yesterday with a cherry picker since there was a broken tree branch on our power line to the house.  I doubt they would have ever acted so quickly if we hadn't gotten Lewis on their medical priority list.  Since Lewis needs his electric feeding pump as part of his treatment, he qualifies.  Sadly, this didn't help with the big cedar tree that is down in our back yard-it's resting on my dogwood:(....The snow is coming down-today's estimate is another 10-20". Snowplows have even stopped until the blizzard conditions lighten up.

So we've hunkered down, done some reading, singing, playdough-making (yes, Nate turned intoan "apricot" color using the pink and green food coloring), slow-roasting (so far a Chicken Tagine one night and a Venison Roast tonight), baking (Nate has coined the new name for Dream bars_they are now referred to as A Wake Bars in our house), self-teaching how to reupholstery (turns out staple guns are fun for getting out pent-up aggression), doink-it dart playing and movie watching (Josh and I watched Inglourious Basterds, a film by Quentin Tarantino the other night. Really violent, but well-done)!  My little snow men are climbing the walls.  We're ready for the Great Thaw. At least tomorrow we might be able to go out sledding...That and dig out our cars.  Until then, I think I'll go eat some more, and then sleep and perhaps proceed again 2x.