Arrah Me Mateys,
Only in Texas will you get temperatures to 81 degrees on Monday & then get freeze warning for Tuesday night.
I spent that beautiful day on Monday afternoon finishing up weeding my daylily bed & straighting out my name tags & spraying for bugs & putting fertilizer out (I was feeling ugly so I put beer out for the little slugs/snails so that they could die with happy smiles on their faces). The bed was looking so pretty. All I needed was to put the new mulch down to keep the daylilies from baking to death in the Texas sun but I ran out of time so I was supposed to finish up Tuesday.
The wind picked up just after 8pm when a cold front came through. At 10pm there was a loud bang & the power was gone. It seems the ash tree lost a limb that came down right across the power lines & pulled our electric power meter right off of our house along with phone lines & cable lines.
The power co told me that it would be around 3am before the power would be restored. Bob offered to go outside with a flashlight & try to
"FIX IT". I didn't think that was a good idea at all. Wind whipping around, trees groaning & moaning & whipping all around, & a downed power line just didn't seem like a good sound foundation upon which to work around not to mention the darkness.
The power company didn't make it until 11:33am (only 8 1/2 hours past their deadline). Then they told us that they couldn't reattach the meter to the house--their responsibility ended at the house. Which meant no power still to the house. So at 2pm an electrician was happy to come & reattach the meter to the house for a fee naturally. The phone company came after the power was restored to redo the lines & restore the internet connection. (the convenience of our wireless phone means that when the power goes so goes the phone)
The cable lines are still flapping in the strong Texas breezes.
It has been really cold today (temp in the 40's). Freeze warning out tonight. Tomorrow Bob & I have to go out & break up the ash tree limbs & get them carted out to the curb for the green grabber to pick up on Thursday. I'll be re-cleaning the daylily bed that I just had finished cleaning. It would be that bed that the limbs fell into. The bed is just filled with twigs & debris from the ash tree. So I have to clean it before putting the new mulch down.
Life is ever full of surprises. I am going to be more than ready for Orlando.
Shive me timbers I'm ready to leave.
Jane