Well, that sucked. Electricity went out Monday night and just came on mid-day today. Had to be around midnight when it finally went down. We'd been flickering all night with the howling winds. I had fallen asleep in the Ice Room but woke up around 1:30 a.m. to a house in full shut down. With the heat being off, I beat a tactical retreat from the barely-insulated Ice Room and spent the rest of the night listening to whipping winds and radio forecasts. We'd camp in the living room pretty much the rest of the week, stoking logs in the fireplace to gin up a little warmth. We ate well, considering how I hate to waste food. On Wednesday I ate a pound of bacon -- Alane was at work and the boys at school and what was I gonna do? Throw away bacon? So now it's clean-up time. Cookie and Mojo had the Xbox on within about 12 seconds of the power clicking back on. Our POS refrigerator is cleaned, inside and out -- we'll see if it works any better now that the heat-transfer coils on the bottom aren't wearing a wool blanket of dust fuzz.