Boggy Tundra

 This has been one Hell of a week, and we're not anywhere near out of it yet.  

Honey and I got our second Covid shots on Friday, and both of us had reactions to the vaccine.  Mine was very mild, but Honey ran a temperature and ached all over for about 36 hours.

We got over it just in time for the coldest weather of our lifetimes!  We didn't get nearly the amount of snow that was predicted, but we did get sleet and freezing rain, a tiny bit of snow and temperatures I had only experienced on training trips to St Paul, Minnesota.  

We've experienced temps that turned the old Boggy Thicket into frozen tundra, and just to make life more interesting, the lights have been out since Sunday!  

They came on for a few hours yesterday, and came back on about an hour ago, but there's no way to know if they're back on for good this time.

The whole-house generator we bought for hurricanes has served us well, but we have been trying for two days to get more propane delivered.  After leaving voice mail messages and email for two days, I finally went to the propane place and caught the guy who normally delivers to our house filling up his truck.  He told me that they are getting between 200 and 250 calls a day, and that he was only delivering to people whose tanks were below 5%!  I even tried playing the age card- telling him we were both in our 70s didn't make a dent. He assured me that with our tank just under 30%, we should last until he can can get here in another day or so.

If the lights will just stay on this time, he might be right.