When blogging last night, I talked about how much I enjoy snow and I was excitedly looking forward to a predicted storm. But that’s when I was thinking about being warm and toasty inside our comfy house. I wasn’t considering the possibility of a “power failure.”

In the wee hours of the morning I awoke to total silence. It’s funny how you miss the hum of the refrigerator, the on-and-off of the furnace, and other power driven sounds. When everything is off, it’s hauntingly quiet.

It’s about 9:00 a.m. and we still have no electric power. There’s no projection for its resumption.

We have a fire in the fireplace and coffee perking on our gas range.

It’s about 60 in the living room and colder in the rest of the house.

The out-the-window view is beautiful. Snow ladened trees and a blanket of white are awe-inspiring. The geese are spending most of their time in the open-water areas; although some show-off by walking on the thin ice. Believe it or not, the photo is actually “in color” but the colors are obviously primarily black and white.

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11:08 a.m.

The power just came back on. I’d guess we were without electricity for about eight hours. It was a good reminder that we need to be better prepared for outtages.

We need to have a can of gasoline for the snowblower and the generator, batteries for flashlights and radios, matches or lighters. It would be a good idea to start up the generator and see if it works. (We haven’t needed to use it since we had power added to our place in the Upper Peninsula and that was about a dozen years ago.)

We did find an old battery operated radio so we weren’t totally isolated. Our cellphone continued to work, providing us with limited phone service.

Of course there was no internet access, but I had a good book to help pass the time. I was cozied up in an afghan and didn’t mind the inconvenience. John stayed warm by cutting wood and shoveling. We got by.

I will still look forward with excited anticipation to an approaching storm, but the heat needs to stay on.