We had a pretty nasty storm blow through here on Monday. We lost power about 4:00pm and got it back around 7:00pm. I was having Ike flashbacks, in not a good way. Monday was a busy day for us! I found out a few minutes before 10am that I needed to be at the church for a meeting at 10:15 -- yikes! The girls and I were mostly ready, so we got out to the car pretty fast. Unfortunately, the car wasn't so ready. It didn't start. My wonderful in-laws came to the rescue with their truck, though! Fortunately we'd just put Joanna's carseat in the backseat on Saturday for a trip to the hardware store, so I was able to install it again very quickly. After we got back home, I decided to cook... a lot (for me, anyway!). I roasted a chicken (or baked... what's the difference?). I was actually going to do it in the crockpot, but just felt that I should do it in the oven instead. Good thing! It wouldn't have been done by the time we lost power if I'd done it in the crockpot! Anyway, I cooked the chicken, then used most of the meat to make chicken and veggie soup -- yummmmmmy! I also did some chicken taco soup in the crockpot. When the power went out (and stayed out) I just moved the taco soup over to the stove to finish. I LOVE MY GAS STOVE!!!
I was planning to serve leftovers for dinner and freeze the soups. We ended up eating the soups because they were hot and we couldn't use the microwave for leftovers. There was still plenty of soup to freeze, though, and my freezer is full of dinner for lazy days! I was a little worried I was going to have to haul the soup to my mom's to freeze, but the power came back on just as I was getting ready to go. Man I love electricity... a lot.
Sadly, we went out back to discover this:
No we haven't decided to widen the backyard. No, we haven't gotten suddenly very friendly with our neighbors. Yet another tree decided to shed it's top. Grrrrr. Fortunately, of course, it didn't hit the house and it didn't hit the brand new fence we just put up and it didn't knock down fence between us and neighbors with dogs. As far as I'm concerned, it can stay this way for a while! Ha!
I'm pretty sure there was funnel activity in the area. It was no common thunderstorm, and there was some pretty serious damage around. We were actually pretty fortunate.
yikes! i am so grateful we haven't had to deal with that yet. we have a ton of trees in our yard and the neighbors' yards around us, and i'm sure something like that will probably happen while AJ's deployed, but i'm hoping and praying it doesn't!! we've had branches down, but not even very big ones. we've been very blessed.
ReplyDeletewill joanna eat the soups? josh won't...course, it's only marginally possible that he'd eat the chicken at all, and veggies are pretty much out of the question most days. He did eat some frozen peas yesterday...but we went to the nieghbors' house for bbq chicken, lima beans, green beans, mashed potatoes and rolls and he ate his 1/2 a roll and drank his milk and that's it. nothing else! he's so picky and VERY stubborn!! So if Joanna eats that sort of thing, count your blessings!!
No, she doesn't eat soup or veggies, but she usually will eat the chicken from the soup along with some fruit and bread. I'm sure the chicken from the soup has veggie essence on it, right? :)
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