October surprise memory

Things are settling down and my mom is settling in. We have a bunch of MD appointments coming up with the focus on stabilizing my mom and checking that there are no medical conditions that are left to continue without medical attention. We have been blessed with caring and comprehensive Geriatric specialists and are steadfastly seeking help with good results. Thank you for your prayers! God is good and everything that He does is good!

Thought I would enlighten some and remind the locals of the October surprise some three years ago. There was a lot of snow but the real disaster was that the leaves had not fallen from the trees yet. The heavy wet snow snapped huge branches and sent them crashing to the roof, ground and in our case, through the built in pool. There was much damage in the city and burbs. We were without electricity and/heat for 10 days. WBEN radio via battery power was our life line.

We had three houses hooked up to the generator on the RV. I set my cell phone alarm for 1.5 hours and each tome the alarm went off, we started up the RV and ran the generator for 15 minutes. Each day, the neighbors left gas cans at our door as we kept the basements dry and the meat in the freezers frozen.

We learned a lot about what neighbors can do to help and encourage each other. We learned how to do without and to be grateful for fireplace heat, electricity and light. I actually wore a forehead flashlight most evenings ( you guessed it), I knitted. There was no TV but we did get an extension cord to run the coffee pot once per day. Our next door neighbors treated us one night to a deep fried turkey dinner-delicious!!!!!

Hot cider, hot chocolate,sweaters, wool socks and down comforters.........it's quilt season..........holidays are coming.....................snow flakes and Christmas...........I'm ready!!