Tuesday 9/6 by 6pm

That, my friends, is the projected estimate from the power company as to when we will have power restored at my house.  T-U-E-S-D-A-Y.  Like NEXT WEEK.

Someone please do a little voodoo dance or something to make the power come back sooner!!!

I should not complain.  Many are suffering from loss of homes that got swept away in storm surges, flooding, property damage from trees and poles.  We had none of that.  We have running water and a generator to help keep things going here but it's still tough.  I have to be careful as to what I run in the house.  I can't overload the circuit.  So it's just a major pain in the you know what.

I would never make it on Little House on the Prairie.  NEVER.

And with that said, I'm tired of not sewing so I'm going to go do just that!

Enjoy your day!
Jen

Nearing the end of day 3...

Still no power.  According to the energy outage map, 97% of my town is out of power... still.  Areas around us, close in numbers as well.  Thank you everybody for your well wishes and happy thoughts about the power being back soon.  Sorry I haven't answered emails but we lost our landline phone which is also our internet 9 a.m yesterday and we got that bit back a couple of hours ago.  Ahhhhhh, feels much better.  I wonder if I would ever survive during Little House on the Prairie time?  My guess?  NO!

So, generator is still running and we can talk on the phone again.  My husband's guess of a week without power is looking pretty close to true.  The utility people aren't even in my town yet.

I did get some sewing in today.  I just couldn't take it anymore.  I hope to have a finished top to show you soon.  Need to hit the fabric store for my border piece.  I didn't get a chance to do that before the storm and now they have no power either.  Oh well.

That's all for now!
Jen

Phew! It's over!

Hurricane Irene is now gone from my house.  Headed north.  It wasn't too bad.  Actually, by the time it hit in New England, it was down-graded to a tropical storm.  Still.  60 mile an hour winds are nothing to mess with.  We are living off of artificially generated power right now.  Power left my house just about 6 am.  I had JUST gotten up to hop into the shower and POOF.  No power.  My husband wasn't going to fire up the generator until most of wind died down but I pleaded with him to turn it on so that I can at least shower.  He needed coffee so it was a win/win for both of us.

The winds never got that bad for him to turn off the generator so we had power all day long.  But it will be off for the night.  I'm losing my lovely power at 8:30 tonight and it will get turned back on in the morning if the "real" power isn't back by then.  By my husband estimates, as he drove around the area after Irene left, it will be a week at least before power is restored to our area.  Lots of down trees, power lines and poles.  We just have lots of raking to do in the yard.  Only a few big limbs and one tree top fell.  But nothing on the out buildings, house, cars or equipment.  Chris and his dad spent some time earlier in the week cutting down all the dead trees that could fall in a big wind and do damage.  Good thing that they did.  I'm sure if they didn't, we would have it much worse.  My neighbor has a few trees that were uprooted and leaning but nothing near her house.

I didn't do any sewing though.  Didn't want to put the extra strain on the generator.  So I worked on my June birdie block.  Almost done.  Other than that, nothing.

I'm glad the weather is calmer and COOLER.  Ahhhhh, no need for the AC for the next week.  That the only good thing with this hurricane.  It brought some much cooler weather with it.

I hope that others that were in Irene's path faired as well or better than we did.

Enjoy your day!
Jen