Happy New Year
Tonight we’re staying in to celebrate New Year’s Eve. We’ve bought some sparkling cider and some fancy appetizer type foods and we’re going to watch Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve party on television and watch the ball drop in Times Square. It is bitterly cold out and really windy; I can’t imagine being outside on a night like this! When I was driving home from the grocery store the car was being pushed around a lot on the road; I was really glad to get home! I was upset when I was driving home to find that the road was blocked by a huge downed tree just 1/4 mile from my house. It was too big for me to move it, so I had to do a detour to get home.
That would not be a big deal to someone in the city – just drive around the block! Well, out here, driving “around the block” is about a twenty minute detour! Oh well, I made it home safe and sound – to discover that we had no power! We had no power until about 5pm, so the housework that I was planning on doing (vacuuming and laundry) didn’t get done. So I guess I’ll be ringing in the New Year with a dirty house and dirty clothes! Oh well, life goes on! I’m glad the power came back before it got dark out!