You may have noticed that I didn't get my weekly blog post done last week. There was truly no time and I really didn't have much to say. Every free moment was spent working on the house. Last weekend we had a dumpster delivered for the weekend and had to get all the flooring we had removed loaded, plus I had to go get my Covid vaccine, and it was the super bowl. It was a busy weekend to say the least. I just have to say though, before moving on from the dumpster talk, that Merrick was a MAJOR help with getting it loaded. He almost single handedly loaded all the wood into the dumpster.
This week the work continued until it came to a grinding halt. Thursday our floors were supposed to start being installed and Wednesday night we found out that, while they were supposed to be in over a week before, they were not in and are completely MIA. At this point we are in a bit of a panic because we are supposed to move in next weekend to avoid paying for another month of storage. On top of that, Thursday night we started getting ice and snow. Over the next days it was much more ice than snow and we are in the middle of the worst ice storm in 30-40 years.
The vast majority of our town is without power. In our family, my parents (and us by extension) are the only ones in the family with power. It has been days for everyone else without power, with no end in sight. In the middle of the night on Friday Emily's family had a tree limb come through their skylight. Last night they decided they couldn't take it anymore so they came down and spent the night. We had 13 people in my parent's 1400 sq ft. As for our house, we aren't really sure how it has faired. We can't get up to it at this point. Our neighbors checked on it yesterday and said we had a big limb down in our driveway and yard but they didn't think it hit the house. Scratch that, I just got some pictures from my friend who lives right around the corner and it doesn't look great. Hopefully tomorrow we can go see it for ourselves and hopefully it won't get worse in the the meantime.
Today is Valentine's Day. This is not how I imagined it going. At this point I think we are going to have to postpone our traditional love hunt. I don't see how we can manage a scavenger hunt in the currently circumstances and Merrick's gift was not delivered because of the storm. Life will go on and we will just have to feel the love in a different way today. Ultimately I am just glad we are safe and warm because that's more then a lot of people can say.
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