How'd they cut the power man? They're animals!

Saturday marked two years to the day that I met with Vicky for the first time in Person.  I had plans, but they had to wait as the weather inconvenienced a little. 

The local news TV3Winchester and local website Clarke County News warned us about a severe snow storm approaching over the weekend.

They were not wrong!

Here's Pepper outside 6am on Saturday:

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It doesn't show the severity of the storm, but these pictures will:

We left early and drove to Winchester, Vickys Sister wanted to borrow some films, and we brought back a poster she had loaned:

Returning home, we surveyed the damage to the garden, and to the road outside.


The road is a back way into the local school:

Fortunately, though the tree had fallen on the front porch, no major damage had been done.  But, the power was out.  Neighbours too.  Vicky phoned the Police, who told us to phone the 'Berryville Town'.  Equivalent of a local council.  Naturally they were closed until Monday.  I managed to google the contact details of someone who works in the school.  The driveway itself is owned by the school, and we and a neighbour are allowed to drive on it to park the cars in our back gardens.

Wrapping ourselves up a bit more, I made hot chocolate on the stove (thank god for the gas oven!), and we contacted Liz in Winchester to see if she was ok.  She had power, but a couple of streets nearby were cordoned off because of tree's falling.

After a couple of hours we made the decision to load up the car and stay with Liz until power had been restored.


There were ten people, and three pets all in the house together!  We ate home made pizza (which was delicious), and drank beer.  I also gutted out my first pumpkin!  I thought they were solid inside, and surprised they were not.

Earlier in the afternoon Vicky and I went out for a walk, and saw this:

 

 Sunday we all ate a huge breakfast of sausage, eggs and pancakes, before returning to a normal house.  I cleared some of the fallen tree from the porch, but we'll need help from Liz's other half, he owns a chainsaw!

One of my favourite early memories with my Wife is the day we stayed in and did nothing.  That day we watched Bambi, a film I had not seen since I was little, and yes I did have something in my eye, even before 'that' scene, (a scene which I call the 'psycho shower scene for kids').

As a surprise I purchased Dumbo on blu-ray, so we took over the sofa and watched it together.  Afterwards we watched the ghost movie The Others, a film I urge everyone to watch.  This was my first time.  Last thing before sleep was a new episode of The Walking Dead, a film quality (and budget) horror tv show.