Winter Blast

Winter made a hearty return to the north country on Thursday and Friday. We wound up with near a foot of heavy, wet snow and the trees were all bent over and our power shut down. It reminded us of last March when we were blasted with twenty inches and lost power for two days.
This time our power went out at 8 pm on Thursday and we kept the house as warm as we could with the fireplace and an LP heater in the kitchen. We brewed coffee in the garage on our Coleman stove and heated water to wash our hair and sponge bathe.
We took a ride to Goodfallows in Leland on Friday to see how they were coping with the outage, and their house was warm, but they lost their power just before we got there. We helped them get the candles lit and flashlights ready and then went back to our house for the night. We met them on Saturday in Traverse City when we met for Jakob Olson's birthday lunch. They told us the power went on for them as soon as we left on Friday! (Makes me think this outage was following us around)!
We left Traverse City on Saturday and drove over to Empire. The power there had just been restored at about three in the afternoon. We drove to Glen Arbor and the power there had been restored at about four o'clock. Looks promising! We then drove home and our power was still out at about six thirty. We got settled in and I started getting the fireplace going and then the power came back on! Hallelujah! It really makes you appreciate what you normally take for granted.
Needless to say it was a happy evening. We called our holiday visitors to give them the all clear and let them know the Inn was back in service! Come on up!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!!

This was the view out the back window on Friday morning.

 

Ho, Ho, Ho...Snow!  It took several hours to blow the wet heavy snow off of the driveway.