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It’s beautifully sunny this morning and the ice is finally thawing! My husband decided yesterday he would drive down the driveway – ‘damn the torpedoes – full speed ahead!’ and get the mail. He actually made it back safely. He did say it was too slick to do anything about the big trash can we’ve left down there since Monday for Tuesday pickup. Since it’s supposed to get to 58 this afternoon, we should get a bunch of thawing today. We’ll plan to get out and replenish supplies tomorrow afternoon.
We’ve spent almost 3 weeks now, supplying one day and then being trapped on top of our ridge line for the following week, one week at a time. I’m hoping that we can just settle down now and have the REGULAR Arkansas winter for at least a bit. I’m still feeling extremely lucky that our systems and back-up systems worked to keep us pretty comfortable through all this. When things dry out enough, we’ll move firewood into the holder in the garage so we’ll have plenty of firewood for more fires, if needed.
My husband didn’t mention any problems getting down or up the driveway yesterday, so I guess that means we didn’t have any more limbs or trees blocking our way due to the ice storm. We’ll still need to neaten up more from the quick and dirty job we did of chain-sawing things down that prevented our passage after the heavy, wet snow brought so many trees and limbs down the week before last. We can do that a bit at a time, though.
The sunshine brings my spirits up after all the cold, cloudy, and grim we’ve had. I’ll take some time and see if I can walk around outside today, smiling up at the sky.
Other than cheering on the beautiful day, I’ll make my husband’s request for chili for dinner tonight and continue working on our tax records. Be still, my heart. :0)
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