Friday Update

I'm still here. And I'm still posting from my phone as I just completely screwed everything up on my big desktop computer at the QPO.

I won't go into that right now - it's small potatoes compared to everything else. But I am excited to say that we do have power at the retreat, and at my post office studio.

I am washing all of our household laundry first. Then I will be washing Retreat laundry. This is my list of to do today.

I am grateful for it!

There is still no power at home but we are hopeful it will be restored within the next day or two. Compared to other folks - we are doing really well.

We saw the Orthopedics doc yesterday and Dave has a good 6 to 8 weeks recovery for his fractured clavicle. We expected that. The hardest thing is keeping a good man down and immobile.

Son Jeff was back up yesterday to work on wall cleanup. 

While we are sad that the wall fell due to the storm after my men folk put so much work into it, we know that we can rebuild and it really affects nothing as far as our day-to-day life goes. Our houses weren't washed away as some folks were.

Our cars didn't go floating down the creek.

We didn't lose our crops or our livestock.

We didn't even lose anything in our fridge or freezer thanks to the generator that so many people do not have.

And now that there is power I can wash laundry! It's truly simple pleasures around here.

And when the generator is running, we have some Outlets that work and thanks to extension cords I have been able to have enough light to get back to some hand quilting.

Yes! The desire to stitch is coming back. Bring It on!

Since the power is back on at the inn, and the propane tank has been refilled there, next week's retreat is a go.

This also brings back a sense of normalcy and I can't wait to have the house full of happy people enjoying themselves and creating beautiful things.

So I guess today I will be putting things back in order and hopefully restore the files that I completely screwed up on my desktop computer when I tried to get rid of OneDrive.

Again - it's a small headache and I can recover quite a bit. It's small potatoes in the whole scheme of everything.

Yesterday we were even able to stop by Walmart and get the groceries that we needed. It was almost like normal and that was a nice breather.

We were able to top off the gas tank which was still half full at a small gas station downtown. There was just one guy in front of us filling gas cans for his generator. No problem there and happy to be on full again.

Once more, it's the small things I am most grateful for.

Have a wonderful Friday  everyone.

Bonnie