another update

This is what I hope is the final update from Sandy.  We got power back around 9pm Monday night.  Yay!  It was sooooooooooo nice.  Basically a week without power.  Irene kept us without power for 5 days.

We got our internet/phone/TV back today in the late afternoon.  And yes, thank God, we survived the nor'easter with our power intact.  We did get snow and wind, but the wind was just enough to knock the snow off the leaves that are still on the trees.  And the snow was just enough, not too much.  We were so lucky once again.

We had a bit of a scare today.  Poor father type has a kind of food poisoning and has started antibiotics to treat it. We are hoping he will be feeling better by tomorrow and recovering nicely by the weekend.

Thanks to everyone for their good wishes for us through all of this.  We were so lucky, as I've said before.  Yes, we had the inconvenience of no power etc.  But we have our house and are safe.  We are still figuring out about the car -- whether we can manage to salvage it despite it being totalled, or whether we have to get a new car.  We shall see.  There are the fallen trees to take care of, but they are not in the way, so we will get to it.  Like I said, we were so lucky.  My thoughts go out to all those who are still suffering, who have lost their homes or businesses  -- in short, everyone affected by Sandy and the nor'easter.

I have finished what I could of the model stitching for now and am waiting the arrival of the rest of the chart for the model.  So perhaps I will have a bit of non model stitching to show you next time.  And I haven't forgotten the red wall either.  Although I should say my red wall is very small, so don't be disappointed.  :D

I will leave you all with a picture -- recreated -- of what Mia was doing through much of the power outage.  We had our little wood stove burning away in the evenings, and Mia enjoyed the warmth very much.  It was too dark to capture it in real life however.  So this is just a recreation of what she would do.  I took it soon after we got our power back.

Thanks as always for stopping by and saying hi.  And thank you to all my blogging friends.  Your good wishes and thoughts for us mean so much.  Oh, and it might take me a while to catch up with blog reading, but I'll be back to commenting soon!

update

Still no power.  They say by November 9.  I hope.  Nor'easter coming, but hopefully only rain and a bit of wind, not as bad inland wind-wise.  It's coooooollllldddd.  Come on, guys, we need our power back!  It's a real mess everywhere.  And I mean everywhere.

Sorry I'm not commenting on blogs or anything.  Turned comments off.  No internet at home either, obviously.

Oh, and the car might be totalled.  Still talking to insurance about options.

Kids are back to normal lives at least.

Nuff said.

Ugh

Just wanted to post to let everyone know we're safe and sound, and so is the house.  I really was literally afraid for the house and for our lives at the height of the storm.  We have no power, and won't have for some time to come from the look of it.  Trees down close to the house, branch on car which has a dented roof and no back window now.  Cold in house, of course.  Girl child is in the same boat -- no power, but she has places to go where she can power up her cell phone and stay warm during the day at least.  Boy child unaffected, has power, classes on as of Tuesday.

Will post again when I am able.  Thanks to everyone for the good wishes.  I pray all my friends are safe after Sandy.  And I pray for no more Sandys in future.

ETA: I won't be answering comments due to the situation.  But thanks so much for all your comments and good wishes!!

Go away, Sandy

So here I am, waiting for Sandy to do its thing, hoping for the best.  To all my fellow Sandy sufferers, I hope we all come through safely and with minimal damage or flooding or loss of power -- or internet.  Good thoughts for us all.

As you all know, I'm in the midst of stitching a large model for Vickie of Needlework Press.  So no stitching to show for a while to come.  In the meantime, I thought I'd show you my various sampler walls around the house.  Most aren't very impressive, but everyone seemed to enjoy my new sampler wall in the sewing room, so here goes.

I'm starting out with an area you've seen before, my A&E walls.  If you haven't guessed, I'm trying to hang my samplers in groupings.  So the ones in the sewing room are the ones with houses and grassy fields, along with animals, especially but not exclusively cows.  Then of course, there are my A&Es.  Which you've seen, but you might like another look?

Please ignore the basket of mail and other messiness you are seeing under the samplers.  :D

So the two samplers on the left wall are Ann Sandles by With thy Needle and Thread on top and Guarding Eden by Examplars from the Heart.

Then the big wall is as follows:  Top left is Ann Smith by the Scarlet Letter, bottom left is Frances Eden by Handwork.  Then the top row from the left is Charlotte Clayton by the Northwest Sampler Guild, the Jenny Bean Creation Sampler by Shakespeare's Peddler, and Sarah Esh by Carriage House Samplings.  Second row from left is Paradise Lost by Plum Street Samplers and Know Ye (I think -- I'm having a senior moment.) by La D Da.  Bottom row from left is Margaret Pence by Goode Huswife, Fruit of the Spirit by Plum Street Samplers, and Hallow Eden by Plum Street Samplers.  If I got any of those wrong, my apologies.  I think I'm right though.

Now the other wall, same wall as the samplers on the left wall there, but farther over and past a window.

Just two more.  (There are more to be framed, but this is it for now.)  The one on the left is Ann Wheatley by Needlework Press, and the one on the right is Jane Atkinson by Scarlet Letter.

Next week maybe I'll show you my red sampler wall.  :D

This is the first Halloween, and also the first hurricane, where my kids aren't home.  It's a strange thing. I've had to check up on both kids constantly to make sure they're safe and getting ready for the storm, and also enjoying any Halloween activities.

I sent the boy child a Halloween care package.

This is the non-candy part of it.  (Not the vuvuzela though.  That he brought with him from home, a vital part of one's college equipment.)

The boy child is happy that classes have been cancelled for the day.  We'll see about tomorrow.

The girl child made me nervous by going to NYC for the weekend to celebrate Halloween with friends.  She worked very hard on her costume.  Here's a work in progress pic she sent me.

Can anyone guess who she dressed as?  Here she is all dressed up.

And from the back.

(That's one of her friends dressed as Pacman in the background.)

So do you know who she is yet?   Only Zelda fans will know.  She is Navi from Zelda of course!  (Last year, she was Link.)  So cute!  And yes, she got a hair cut a week or so ago -- she did it for Locks of Love (is that what it's called?  I think so.  Another senior moment.)

The girl child happily slept in this morning -- her work is closed for the day, which is a good thing.  But of course she made me very nervous by making her way home from NYC late in the afternoon on Sunday and then doing her hurricane supply shopping that evening.  Argh!  Always the last minute with that girl!

Mia is a bit nervous now with the winds and all.  She's been my companion day and night these days without the boy child around.  We are finally finding a mutually comfortable sleeping arrangement at night so that my legs don't get squished.  lol!  And during the day, she helps me out.  Here she is helping with the changing of the sheets.

After our vacation and with the boy child being gone, Mia worries much more when we leave the house.  She is usually waiting for us at the door when we come home, which is a bit unusual for before the boy child left for college.  (She's meowing in this picture.)

(Please ignore how messy the room is behind Mia.  lol!)

So that's it for this week.  I hope and pray that everyone in the path of Sandy stays safe and sound and that there is minimal damage.  Here's hoping the forecasters are wrong!

Thanks for stopping by and saying hi.  Have a great week!