Sunday, December 16, 2007

Winter Storms, Nor'easters and a Chance to Relax

12/16/2007

This Sunday morning finds me cocooned in a crystal palace with every tree limb and blade of grass I can see from our family room windows adorned with a thin layer of ice.  The storm we were supposed to have gotten has come and gone, and luckily for we farm folk it was not nearly what it was forecasted to be, and the effects not nearly as harsh.  The temperature is climbing steadily out of the low thirties and what little ice formed on the trees is beginning to melt away.  Still, it is a pretty sight to behold.  There is even a little sunshine and blue sky appearing every once in a while through the clouds.  The sun adds another layer of spectacular to an already beautiful day.

The Nancy and I spent yesterday preparing for the worst.  She went into town to her office for a while and came home toting a bag full of work she could get done at home if she gets stuck in the house.  I got firewood and kindling stacked on the porch, and prepared the fireplace with wood and kindling ready to light at a moments notice.  I started my chainsaw (yes, dammit, I own a chainsaw) a got it squared away.  One never knows when a tree might come crashing down across our half-mile long driveway.  Our electric generator is at the ready, as well.  I started it up for the first time in a year and moved it into position near the electric line it hooks up to outside the house, having no idea how to hook it up or what it is supposed to run if the electricity fails.  We have a huge pot of chili, meatless of course, and a couple of soups ready to rock just I case we do get stranded here (oh how we would have hated that, imagine, stranded in paradise).  Weather be damned, we were prepared.

So here I am on this Sunday morning sitting in my favorite chair in my favorite room, with my favorite woman close by, gazing out over a garden of sparkling trees just loving this day and so thankful I get to live it.

And that is all I have to say about that…