It was another beautiful, sunshiny day here at Eagle View. We are especially thankful when we watch the news on TV and see all of the ice and snow around the country. Many are in places we can visualize as they are places we visited when we were doing our 49 state odyssey a couple of years ago.
The pictures of the ice reminded us of the huge ice storm we had in Spokane, the year after we moved to the city. The storm came a week or so before Thanksgiving. The icy rain settled on the trees and broke limbs, which in turn brought down power lines all over town. We were without power for eleven days. We had to tell all of our new neighbors that we had never been without power for more than two days when we lived on our ranch twenty miles from the nearest town! Then we moved to the city...
We hung blankets over the doorway into our little TV room that had a wood stove and slept in sleeping bags there on the floor. (Though we didn't spend more than a couple of nights at home as we were kept busy managing shelters for the Red Cross.) We did have hot water however. We had gotten a new hot water heater when we moved into the house that had an old fashioned pilot light instead of an electronic starter. I do remember that we barbecued a duck for Thanksgiving dinner on the gas barbecue outside.
We made a quick trip into Fountain Hills for groceries this afternoon. I wanted to get the ingredients needed for crab cocktails as we still had crab left from our Christmas Eve feast. After we heard Daughter MM talking about her husband Scott cleaning leftover crab for cocktails yesterday, we knew what we wanted to do with ours.
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