POWER OFF POWER ON!

This morning I got shaved and entered the closet to dress when the electricity went off at 8. I had kept the fire going all night so I opened the fireplace and started bringing in more wood. We ate cold cereal when we had planned hot oatmeal. We used our snuggies and spent the morning catching up on reading. As the house cooled off I built a fire in the stove upstairs to help keep it from freezing the pipes. The low temperature was 8 this morning, the high 17 and it is supposed to hit 5 tomorrow morning and not get above freezing until Friday. Today we didn't get below 55 in the house so we were comfortable.

The power came back on at 3 but continued to have short outages all day causing interruptions in the internet and TV that was aggravating. I was able to get some work done. I also brought into the house all the firewood on the porch so tomorrow I will have to face the problem of bringing wood down from the driveway. I haven't put my foot on the snow because I know it is ice and I will fall. I have every year. I may solicit my neighbors' help to move some wood down. They have offered to help. They were in worse shape that me because they only have electrical heat and were bundled up today. They also haven't gone to the mailbox or tried to move on the ice.

The great thing was watching the song birds. We had gold finch, purple finch, two painted buntings, doves, and several cardinals showed up. I can't open my back screen door to add feed but there is still feed in the feeders that they scatter on the ground. I wonder what they do for water. Do they eat snow?