Starting Over

Well, here I go, starting over on my blog.  I kind of crapped out last year.  So much started to happen before Christmas that I had no time to do anything.


It started out with David and I deciding that he would go ahead and go to Iraq.  He would be gone for 4 months.  He would leave at the beginning of December.  This really bummed me out because Christmas is my absolute fvt. time of year!


Well, to make a long story short Obama became President, gov., got all wacky as usual and put things on hold.  Well, David did end up going, He left the first week in Jan. It worked out good in that respect because he was able to be home for Christmas.


Well, the last week in Jan. we had the worst ice storm in centuries, ever in my life!  I knew we were having an ice storm, but I had no idea to what extent. We have had ice storms in the past and have gone without power for maybe a day, but never anything that bad.  Well, this was a big one!  It was actually kind of strange.  It started out raining and it just kept raining.  But when the rain hit the ground or trees or buildings it immediately froze.  It rained all day.  It wasn't soon before we lost power.  I just thought it would come right back on in a few hours.  No such luck.  It got sooo cold.  In our sunroom the thermo read 40 deg., inside! It was really pretty and normally I would have been all about taking pictures, but I didn't have any time for that.  I was constantly putting more and more firewood in the fire.  Thankfully I had enough sense to have the girls bring up a lot of firewood before it got wet.  The first night was freezing! David and my dad kept calling me on my cell telling me to go to my nieces house (she had electricity).  I didn't want to leave the animals to freeze, but afterr day 2 I left.  We went without power for 5 or 6 days.  I actually cried when it came back on!  It literally looked like a war zone outside.  Since our house backs up into the woods we could hear the trees cracking and falling.  I got so worried that I wouldn't let anyone go to the back of the house, afraid that eventually a big ole tree would come crashing through the ceiling. Thankfully that never happened. A tree did fall on Jordans car and smash in the trunk.  Caused a lot of gutter damage, fence damage, broke firepits and birdbath, etc. But nothing too major.  The hard part was in the clean up.  The guys from David office came the next day (how they got here, I have no idea) and they cut away the tree in the drive so I could get out.  Then they came and got trees off the front yard, back decks and house. I was never so greatful to anyone in my life. 
Well, we survived!  I never want to relive that again, atleast not without David being here.  It was hard for him because he was way across the world and could do absolutely nothing but worry, which he is good at.
Well, I will catch up with more later.