recovering...
being without electricity has made me more appreciative of the little things like, heat!
so we had this narly wind storm in the western-washington area. so on thursday night don and i got all dressed up for his company party, to get a call while we were on the freeway, "party cancelled i-5 is flooded!" i was a lil salty since i hate spending time getting ready=time wasted. so we spent the night ordering in and watching tv, until power went out.
around 1 we were in bed and heard a crash. the wind had been making interesting sounds all night, so i thought it was a neighbors tree. don and i got up, and flashed light through our office window to find tree branches blocking the view. yah, so massive craziness. we went outside to assess the damage to find both of our pines laying on our house.
the next day we waited around for the tree guys who said they were coming at, "early afternoon" but came 30 minutes before sunset. they rolled up in a hundai! 3 guys with chainsaws in the trunk of their car! super sketchy, but the phonebook said "liscenced and bonded." they said they'd do the job for $1700 bucks. we're pretty desprite and tell them deal. they get on our roof, and butchered the shit outta the tree. not even concerned about causing more damage. in which, more holes were poked in the roof. they only took the tree off the roof. now we have branches and tree parts lying around. they estimate a crew to come in 2-3 weeks.
3 days without power = 3 days without doing dishes (i've been spoiled with a dishwasher), vacumming, and doing laundry. i think i'll be spending the rest of my days cleaning before leaving for hawaii.
yesterday we spent the entire day with don's family since we won't be here for x-mas. i fell super bad for taking don away for the holidays. and even more bad that his mom will have to deal with the aftermath of the windstorm for us. we got to open our gifts! i got hooked up with a resturant quality pan that i've been eyeing up for months, tons of socks, magazine subscriptions, and SCRILLA! much needed for hawaii. i'm so blessed to have his family in my life. you're not just marrying a husband, but his family also.
so we'll be in hawaii this friday. i'm trying to talk donny into getting a few tans in before then. he's super white and i don't want him to turn super red.
only 4 more days till warm weather!!!!!!
here's some pic of our poor house:
uprooted!
our poor neighbors will have to stare at this for a while.
so we had this narly wind storm in the western-washington area. so on thursday night don and i got all dressed up for his company party, to get a call while we were on the freeway, "party cancelled i-5 is flooded!" i was a lil salty since i hate spending time getting ready=time wasted. so we spent the night ordering in and watching tv, until power went out.
around 1 we were in bed and heard a crash. the wind had been making interesting sounds all night, so i thought it was a neighbors tree. don and i got up, and flashed light through our office window to find tree branches blocking the view. yah, so massive craziness. we went outside to assess the damage to find both of our pines laying on our house.
the next day we waited around for the tree guys who said they were coming at, "early afternoon" but came 30 minutes before sunset. they rolled up in a hundai! 3 guys with chainsaws in the trunk of their car! super sketchy, but the phonebook said "liscenced and bonded." they said they'd do the job for $1700 bucks. we're pretty desprite and tell them deal. they get on our roof, and butchered the shit outta the tree. not even concerned about causing more damage. in which, more holes were poked in the roof. they only took the tree off the roof. now we have branches and tree parts lying around. they estimate a crew to come in 2-3 weeks.
3 days without power = 3 days without doing dishes (i've been spoiled with a dishwasher), vacumming, and doing laundry. i think i'll be spending the rest of my days cleaning before leaving for hawaii.
yesterday we spent the entire day with don's family since we won't be here for x-mas. i fell super bad for taking don away for the holidays. and even more bad that his mom will have to deal with the aftermath of the windstorm for us. we got to open our gifts! i got hooked up with a resturant quality pan that i've been eyeing up for months, tons of socks, magazine subscriptions, and SCRILLA! much needed for hawaii. i'm so blessed to have his family in my life. you're not just marrying a husband, but his family also.
so we'll be in hawaii this friday. i'm trying to talk donny into getting a few tans in before then. he's super white and i don't want him to turn super red.
only 4 more days till warm weather!!!!!!
here's some pic of our poor house:
uprooted!
our poor neighbors will have to stare at this for a while.