Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Back To Normal…Day Three Hundred, Forty One

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After seven nights and almost seven full days, we are back on the grid.  Our electricity is on!!

It was on when we got home last night and after turning the heat on and cleaning a few things we ran out to the grocery store for dog treats and I picked up a few things for breakfast.

It was so good to sleep in my bed last night and not have to wake up every two or three hours to load the fireplace or fight Delilah for my sleeping spot. 🙂

While sounds of chain saws and generators resonate outside, inside a different sound can be heard.

DUH-LIE-LAH…yes we are cooking inside again and Delilah is up to her old tricks.  She continues to evade my efforts to photograph her licking the pans on the stove even though I caught her there twice today, I just wasn’t quick enough with the camera.

She was kind enough to pose with what was left of the banana she stole this morning.  (Yes, it’s there, look closely at the wet mark on her pillow, you can just make out the stem.)

A bit later I wasn’t quite quick enough to photograph her licking the chicken wrappings in my make-shift garbage bag.

Yes things have returned to normal in Casa de Stone, but there are still almost 100,000 people in our state without power, so I won’t complain. 😉

Sofa Battle…Day Three Hundred, Forty

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The light company representative couldn’t deliver last night, so we spent night seven sleeping in the living room.  I am currently at my daughter’s house but heard from a friend that some areas around me got their power back today.  Fingers and toes crossed that our power is on when we head home tonight. 🙂

Round about night four, I gave up sleeping on the futon because Sampson was hogging the entire mattress. 🙂

Seriously it is large enough for three of us....

Since that night, I’ve been waging a battle for the dog’s sofa with Delilah.   It would seem Delilah isn’t content to share the futon mattress with Sampson, she wants the couch that I’ve been sleeping on.

At bedtime when I settle in on the sofa, Delilah commences to staring at me. She sits on the floor and stares, when I scootch my back against the back of the sofa and invite her up for a snuggle, she ignores me and lies down on the futon.

AND……when I get up during the night, which is at least three or four times to feed the fire, Delilah snags the sofa, curling up contentedly against my pillow. 🙂

Follow-Up Friday, Day Three Hundred, Thirty Nine

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For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.

Electricity Update –

The majority of my posts this week have had to do with our lack of electricity and how we are managing, so rather than recap every single post, I am lumping them all together. 🙂

I was supposed to be on vacation beginning Tuesday, but once the trip was cancelled I decided to go back to work.  Really there was no sense in me sitting home in the dark.    Since I was supposed to be away, I decided to cut each day short and leave work early to take the dogs for their daily walks, seeing as there was no daycare and no Thursday night obedience class because no-one had power.

After I walk the dogs Hubby and I head over to my sister’s place, she has power and has been preparing dinner for us every night.  After we eat we head back to the house to feed the dogs, and settle in for the night.

Hubby has been keeping himself busy during the day chopping wood to keep our fire going, as well as helping friends clean-up their yards.  He was taking it easy today because his back was bothering him.

We are managing, it’s not ideal but it’s doable.  The power company is saying we should have power back by midnight Sunday, but just before we left for my sister’s tonight the utility company was at the house and said they were trying to get the entire neighborhood up and running tonight!  That would be marvelous seeing there are still over three hundred, thousand people without power and some of the streets really look like a war zone.  The pictures I have really don’t do the damage justice. 

Some downed trees on my way to my sister's place.

More destruction.

 There are still some streets in my sister’s town where the streets are impassable due to broken trees and power lines. 

Driving is weird.  You can be driving down a street and everything appears to be somewhat normal, then BAM you see destruction everywhere.

Thankfully I haven’t seen a lot of personal property damage, I did see one car with a tree on it, but other than that the majority of the damage I have seen has been trees and wires.

Disaster Area – Author’s Note:

For some reason my phone wouldn’t upload the picture.  Here is our blue-yellow trail which is blocked by this tree.

I have been trying to clear small branches as we walk, but this one is too large.

To Cassie With Love – Author’s Note:

I wasn’t sure how to work this in, but our Son-In-Law, Alex graduated yesterday along with our daughter and we are extremely proud of him as well!

We’ve had a rocky week, but we hope you rocked yours!

Thank you again for all the comments, I am working on responding to them all. 🙂

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