This morning's post is afterwards than my usual. I'd similar to tell I slept inward all this time, but no. There nosotros were, sitting reading our email, when the ability went off, as well as nosotros flora ourselves sitting inward the dark. It was 6:30 a.m., as well as nonetheless black exterior too. The exclusively low-cal inward the room was from our glowing iPads. I went to the Portland General Electric website to larn the low-down, as well as flora that the affair was nether "investigation" as well as that ability would hold out restored at 9:30 a.m. Later that forecast was revised to 9:15 a.m., but the affair was nonetheless nether investigation. So, I figure that's a big fatty lie, designed to order faux promise to the masses. Without knowing the cause, how could at that spot hold out whatever prediction almost when ability would hold out restored? Huh? Answer me that, PGE! Yeah, busted. Only...sadly, nosotros were nonetheless sitting inward the black despite my protest.
Fortunately, my embroidery caput light is rechargeable, as well as it had a total charge. When I finished my email, I spent quite unopen to fourth dimension stitching on Tree #5 for 12 Trees for Christmas.
At 9:00 a.m., the ability was nonetheless out, as well as I was reluctant to opened upwardly the fridge door. Instead, I headed out to a local cafe for unopen to oatmeal as well as to a greater extent than coffee. I'd exclusively had 1 loving cup when the ability went out, as well as I was sorely inward ask of more, more, more! Also, I'd signed upwardly for an alarm when the ability was restored. As I sat scrolling mindlessly on my iPhone, PGE kindly called me to allow me know it was rubber to provide home, as well as that java was available. (Actually, they didn't tell anything almost the coffee, but my caffeine-starved encephalon filled inward the blank.) Now, hither I am...only slightly to a greater extent than addle-brained than usual.
Backing upwardly to yesterday, I finished the in conclusion fourteen stars for the Semper Fi quilt. In celebration, I'm cueing upwardly John Phillip Sousa:
Did yous know Wed was his birthday?
Yeah...so at that spot they are.
This was Sadie's contribution:
Wait...are they finished?
And this quilt is seriously huge now, thence I set it out on the nobody-ever-plays-pool tabular array for a picture.
My in conclusion gasp for the solar daytime was to cutting the strips for the in conclusion border.
And I mightiness direct maintain this finished past times immediately except, yous know...that pesky occupation of no electricity.
It was fourth dimension to quit for the solar daytime then, as well as I had a novel recipe to seek in conclusion night. This is a Cozy Autumn Wild Rice Soup, as well as man, was it e'er tasty. It set waste product to no less than 5 CSA veggies inward the cast of garlic, kale, celery, carrots, as well as sugariness potato. There is both a stove-top as well as a tiresome cooker version of this. I made mine on the stove top, but I didn't bother browning the onions or garlic. I only dumped it all inward the pot as well as turned it on. It took almost an sixty minutes from get-go to finish, but most of that was only waiting as well as stirring. You tin find the recipe correct here.
Okay, thence immediately that we're powered dorsum upwardly again, I'm going to larn complete the Semper Fi quilt. I'll nonetheless ask to slice together a dorsum for it too, but I mightiness expect until tomorrow for that. I've been working on it almost non-stop for over 2 weeks, as well as it'll hold out skilful to direct maintain a interruption from it. Nevertheless, I'm hoping to larn it quilted as well as finished off earlier the halt of December. We'll larn a improve motion painting of the finished overstep this afternoon, I hope.