I apologize for this past weekends party running unmanned...
and for being missing for the past few days.
I am playing catch up as we speak
and I will get by to visit all of you over the next couple of days.
On Thursday evening- the power went out and we woke up on Friday to
nearly 2 feet of heavy, wet snow.
We have been without power
(and without internet) for several days.
The storm brought a record amount of snow for our area of Northern California.
It did A LOT of damage in our county
-one of our neighbors even had a tree fall into their house.
Thankfully, no one was hurt.
Remember these pictures from the summer?
ahhh....
Well, this was how it looked on Friday.
I know this is probably usual for a lot of you-
but not for our area.
There were 3 big trees down in our driveway
and also 3 big old trees in our back yard that will need to be cut down due to splits.
and more snow fell on Friday
The morning was consumed with removing the downed trees from the road,
shoring up the broken trees so they didn't fall and hit the house
& raking the mounds of snow off the roof
Unfortunately, we didn't get that load of snow off the pergola...
We were standing in the living room when there was a big crack and then a crash.
:-{
The pergola fell to the side from the heavy weight of the snow and crashed into the house
through one of our french doors.
Thankfully
no one was bringing wood in -
the path went right underneath the pergola
and no one was standing near the door when it fell.
My husband chainsawed the pieces he could to be able to
patch the door temporarily but, the door is damaged beyond repair.
We are hoping to be able to save much of the wood
and the pillars from the pergola for rebuilding it-
This pergola has been here for several years..
been snowed on many times and it has alway been fine.
Not a creak. Not a bow.
Nothing...
We get snow in the winter but not like this usually-
we don't have to put away our patio sets, can put fabric or cushions up high, leave the lights up, etc.
But this amount of snow was insane for our area
and fell in such a short amount of time. We lucked out that there was not much damage and thank God no one was hurt.
(2 weeks ago)
(yes, that is my little patio set from my Valentines post was under it-
the glass was broken but the set survived)
Ugggghhhhhh....
Did I mention before that I DO NOT LOVE snow?
:-/
So on Saturday-we decided to head out of town early.
Out of the snow, out of power outages, etc.
and we retreated to my mothers house.
My oldest son's band was playing a show in Walnut Creek that we were planning
on going to that evening so we just left a bit earlier that originally planned
and packed our laundry!
It was so good to just get out of cold snowy dodge for awhile!
(The 'band' goofing off while waiting to play a show last summer.)
I always get excited about the band playing- even though it's not my kind of music- both my boys play metal music
and I don't quite 'get' it sometimes-
but I always enjoy seeing them play
(I have never spent so much time in bars! Lol!)
It was a great show with lots of moshing and energy.
( No, in case you are wondering, I do not 'mosh'-
I was tucked safely around a wall and was manning the video camera)
Hope everyone had a great weekend
without snow!
My husband told me to get redesigning the pergola and to think of how many blog posts
My husband told me to get redesigning the pergola and to think of how many blog posts
will be coming in the re build.
He's hilarious...
He's hilarious...
I will get by to say hello soon!
:)