A long weekend

Well today is Monday and I am actually glad for it. This past weekend was really not fun primarily due to having no electricity from the middle of Friday night until Sunday afternoon. We had one of our spectacular thunder and lightning storms here on Friday night and apparently a high voltage line fell on a low voltage line. I don't know what all that means but I do know it took our electricity for 36 hours. Two rough nights of sleep without AC or fan. But of course I survived. Believe it or not the worst part was when I came home on Sat. night from a gathering to find a frog in my toilet bowl. Fortunately the lid was down and it couldn't come out but just scooted back into the pipes. So yes, of course, I am very careful now. Let's just leave it at that:) Although this does explain why there was a frog in my bedroom closet about 2 months ago. I was almost asleep and heard this strange rustling noise and when I checked it out there was a big frog in my closet. Did I calmly find a way to get it out of the house? Of course not! I yelled for Mags and Eva (my designated bug -and now frog removers) to come and help me. I'd like to say I helped but really I just stood on the bed and screamed when it hopped around. Eva and Mags weren't much help either as they both screamed and ran when it hopped as well. We were quite the comical site. Friends from HQ in the states were staying with us so Dayna was the brave one who very calmly ...and kindly... got the frog and took it across the road. I'm really quite the baby with the bugs and other small rodent type things. Ah well... I can do other monumental things like crack and pour an egg one handed!

Like I said seeing the frog in the toilet bowl on Sat. probably explains where the other one came from. Never a dull moment:)

But I digress. On Sunda with the electricity still off I finally made the decision to cook the meat in the freezer before it all spoiled. So that took up a good portion of the morning. Yes, I actually cooked a whole chicken and took the meat off myself. Those of you who know how I feel about handling chicken will understand the magnitude of this. At least it was cooked chicken. Whew! The meat was saved and Mags made a bunch of it into a really great chicken pot pie last night. So all's well:)