White stuff falls from the sky...world shuts down

Hi there, so sorry to leave you hanging.  We had a lovely snow and ice storm a few weeks ago that left us without power for 4 days so our world shut down.  No cable or internet either...and we've just discovered the power surge blew out the HDMI ports on our tv and of course it's 2 weeks outside the warranty.

*shakes fist at the heavens* 

But we're alive and well.  Minus about 5 trees because the ice encased them and snapped them like toothpicks.  It was the strangest thing to stand outside and listen to branches and trees falling all around you.  Well that and generators.  Of course I wouldn't let Bryan buy one during the last week long power outage (5 years ago) so we sat in the dark receiving text messages from friends thanking Bryan for hooking up their generators.  He just sat there giving me the stink eye the whole time...luckily it was dark so I couldn't see it.

The first half of our snow adventure was lovely though.  Fire crackling, dogs playing in the snow, a good book and a marathon of Burn Notice.  Then one of our trees fell on the transformer in front of our house and it sparked and shot flames until we lost power.  Game over.

The fun:

Charlie the snow plow

Yay!  Snow day!

Rolo comes to play

He liked to lay on top of Issy's ball and roll around

Dumbo

Issy loves to ruin pictures



The beauty:

My Mom took these, I was too cold to venture outside ;)

The destruction:

Blurry tree branch after Bryan drug it out of the driveway

Bye bye apple tree...lilac, fir x 2 and cedars

These are the tree tops that fell into our yard

Thanks for sticking through my little break.  Back to regularly scheduled programming...

Speaking of that, anyone not have cable and watch all their shows on the internet?