Sunday October 30, 2011

 

 

Longhorn Steakhouse

No Electricity

 

 

 

It was a beautiful day, but inside thousands of homes and many churches there was no electricity – including our house – because of fallen trees and branches.

I woke up at 5 a.m. thinking, “I am cold.” (That’s because I am used to a heated mattress cover.) My next thought was, “It is really dark.” That’s when I realized we did not have electricity.”

We dressed, combed, and brushed our teeth by flashlight before going to church. I noticed that we had lots of visitors, then when church was over, found out that most of the visitors were because their churches were without electric.

 

 

Cerwin, Roy, Deb, Kristen, Jere, Chris, Jeff

This was our 2011 birthday celebration – when we treat our Pennsylvania children to a nice meal – usually at a steakhouse. It was good I didn’t plan to cook the meal at our house. However, we did plan to have the ten Pennsylvania grandchildren at our house for pizza – they ended up going to Jere & Kristen’s house.

Mark and Diane – we always miss you on this day.

 

 

Cerwin’s steak and sweet potato. He also had a salad.

 

 

My “Redrock Grilled Shrimp”

 

 

Jeff’s “White Cheddar & Bacon-Stuffed Filet”

 

 

Chris’ sirloin salad

 

 

Jere also got the “White Cheddar & Bacon-Stuffed Filet.”

 

 

Kristen’s “Grilled Chicken & Portabella”

 

 

Deb’s “White Cheddar & Bacon-Stuffed Filet.”

 

 

Roy chose a bacon wrapped filet and vegetables. He also had a salad.

 

 

We got two dessert samplers and shared them.

 

 

Deb wanted to taste the banana cheese cake – and shared it as well.

 

 

We were still out of electric when we got home from lunch, so Cerwin used the generator to run our big freezer and extra refrigerator in the garage.

When we checked what else in the house had electric because of the generator, I was delighted to discover it was running my computers and internet, also our bedroom and bathroom. We still did not have water or phone.

That worked nicely for the next five hours – until the electric came on. Because Cerwin had to turn off the main breaker to run the generator, we weren’t aware when the electric came on – but eventually caught on when we saw that the neighbor’s dusk to dawn light was lit at 9:00 p.m.  We understand that the electric had come on an hour earlier.