Rudders at Home

I’ve been home at my parents’ now for four days, and during 2.5 of them, we’ve had no electricity.

We got hit by a mighty powerful wind storm on Sunday night, remnants of Ike, making it all the way up here to the Northeast. Our power went out on Sunday night and we haven’t seen it since. Rumor has it we’ll get it back sometime tomorrow. We had no rain with the storm, just extremely high winds. There were trees down everywhere. I’d forgotten how storms like that work in places like this.

As the boys left us early Monday morning for the jaunt to the Canadian wilderness, my mother and I have had nothing but each other for entertainment. It’s been fun. I’ve been doing a lot of reading. But today, we took up an offer of a generator, because well, the deep freeze was becoming unthawed and the risk of losing so much food was getting to my mother. Probably not so much, but it makes things a bit more dramatic saying that.

The generator also means that I have a connection to the internet and can catch up on some quality reading. And to add a post to this little old blog here. So, here are some pictures I took in the back yard on my first morning back in the USA.

Here’s some poppies, or jewel weed. My mother discovered the real name of this plant was jewel weed a while ago. Apparently when it blooms, you’re supposed to stop feeding the hummingbirds because it’s time for the m to migrate. Who knew?

I grew up calling them poppies because if you touch the green pods on the plant, they pop and fly everywhere!! It’s a bit out of context on screen here, but if you’re six, or well, thirty even, it’s a very good source of outdoor entertainment.

Here’s a photo of some mums in the flower garden by our deck. It was pretty dewey out and the sun just glistened off the droplets on the flowers.

And finally, some black eyed susans for your viewing pleasure.

I hope our electricity comes on soon. Meanwhile, I’m going to go takeover Paul’s blog a bit and post some photos of them getting ready for their trip.

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