Batten Down the Hatches........

Looks like we are in for a nasty ice storm on Saturday and Sunday.

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I so hope they get this wrong, but I don't think so.  Here is a link to an article about preparing for an ice storm.

After the ice storm

We were lucky as we got a combination of snow and ice.  Our biggest inconvenience was that there was ice on the satellite dish so we couldn't get a lot of tv channels.  For some reason dh wasn't too keen on hauling out the 32 ft ladder to go up on the high roof and knock the ice off...LOL

Been busy today decorating the parlour/dining room.  Will spend a lot of tomorrow putting the room back together.

Ice Storm

We had a nasty ice storm on Thursday/Friday, which resulted in us having our hydro/electricity out for around 24 hours. This was the view from the dining room window when I got up on Friday:

All the windows to the east of the house were like this covered in ice.

When the ice started to melt on Friday afternoon, that's when the damage began:

It looks as though the poor tree is bleeding:

This in one of the willows by the road, so much too clean up; it's hard to see it though:

This tree has lost it's top:

One of the hardest things for us, is that our well is powered by electricity, so we had only the water that was in the pipes.  Also dh's sleep apnea machine is powered by electricity, so he had a restless night as well.  In the scheme of things ours was a minor inconvenience!

On Thursday night we went to the Drawing for Art function and it was a lovely but long night.  We were all chosen near the end, so none of us got what we really wanted but we all got something.  I was lucky enough to get a painting by the artist George Mocanu.  You can view the painting here.  The one I got was called Mountain Landscape and it's on the third row on the right.  Dd got on by an up and coming artist called Pete Smith, or so the curator of the gallery told her?  This is all I could find about him  

I have published another couple of book reviews here  Managed to get some reading done while the hydro was out!!!

Survived the ice storm.........

Had no hydro for 24 hours; which sucked!!

Have a bit of damage regarding some of the trees.

Will get back to blogging tomorrow.