ke4roh's Journal: What a day!

It seems all of North Carolina (or at least from here west) got 1/2 inch or more ice. The utility linesmen have been very busy lately. One tree was leaning towards the house yesterday - I feared it might crash into the upstairs bathrooms. My fears have been allayed - it only took out the banister on the deck.

I took some pictures of the ice but can't upload them until Elizabeth gets back with her laptop. To tide you over, I wrote this this morning:

Laden pines form arabesques.
The sun melts their sheaths.
A menagerie of icicles clinks to the ground.
A breeze intensifies the shower.
Another branch succumbs to gravity.

Stickman stayed over last night because his power was out (but his phone was working). Michael and Amy were planning to join us tonight, too, but Michael just sat down on our couch before we checked the message on the answering machine from Amy telling that their power had come back on thirty minutes prior.

The phone here was out for the better part of Thursday, and the cable (for internet) failed Thursday morning and came back Friday evening. The power still blinks here regularly as they switch sources and repair additional lines.

Stickman just now went home and called me about his CO alarm going off. I told him he needed to be talking to 911 instead. Before he called them, he checked his detector, and it was issuing the "Malfunction" warning. How disconcerting. He unplugged it, plugged it back in, and now it's quiet. He'll sleep at his place tonight.

Tomorrow the bedroom furniture comes. Now all we have to do is find a mattress. Sigh... I'd better go back in there and finish moving out the old furniture.