 Ruth gets stuck petsitting from Fri. nt. thru Sun. afternoon, but at least the host house has power, food & loving animals! |
 Meanwhile, "Ruthless" Howard shovels a deck/lawn tunnel for Allie & Joey, & fires up the generator (no power!) |
 I drive home Sun. afternoon. Isn't Serpentine Way gorgeous? |
 Getting really close to home now - yay!! I look for a place to park until my street gets plowed. |
 Amazed when I pass Serp Ct - Overachievers on Serp Ct have shoveled a car path up to 14 Serp Ct, & Don & neighbor still work. |
 I walk into my house to find MaryAnn cooking delicious chili on Howard's kerosene burner & Judyn taking a hot shower upstairs. |
 Howard gets snowblower working & O'chievers cut a path from Don's to our driveway. Miller & Super Bowl time, thx to generator! |
 Poor Joey can't get to his beloved fence line to bark at animals! |
 Now we just need our power back - but with the generator, we entertained neighbors for the Super Bowl.. |
 Our roof Sunday afternoon |
 An awesome job by the Overachievers:Participants from all 9 Serp Ct. houses plowed our own way out to Serp Way! |
 Looks like Hidden Valley needs some Overachievers! |
 Monday 2pm - All is calm; all is bright. Allie & Joey finally get to go for a walk. |
 Sunrise Tuesday morning from upstairs. Pepco woke us up at 6 with a "power's on" message, so I got up to take a picture. |
 Well, we finally got a plow Wed., but it couldn't plow... |
 Here we go again! Howard & I cleared the whole deck, down to the wood, Tuesday...but we got another 6 inches on Wed. |
 Wed. afternoon - view from guest bedroom |
 Thur. 7:15 AM - the fun begins again, after getting 6 more inches on Wed.! |
 Bob, 7:30 AM Thursday |
 View from living room Thursday morning |
 Thursday morning from living room |
 We actually got Wed.'s newspaper - but the snowblower found it first! |
 Washington Post delivery Thursday |
 Mail delivery Thursday. He actually came Wed., but the plow blocked his path! |
 Joey in the tunnel out back Thursday |
 Allie in the tunnel Thursday |
 Howard hard at work Thursday - still waiting for that frontloader Thursday afternoon! |
 Shovel, snowblower - whatever it takes! |
 I think there IS a dog back there somewhere..... |
 Cool icicles! |
 Ooh...do I really want to use this? |
 Sat. 3PM: County plow comes. This guy was GOOD! Still can't drive @ court, but street is much better now! |
 Saturday: View from dining room window. Oh dear, someone has had an accident! |
 Oh no. It's right outside our house! Is it Howard? |
 Icicles outside guest bedroom window, Sat, 5 PM |
 So terrific to see birds in the trees again! |
 And my moose is back! |
 I finally got to see the huge red fox that Joey barks at. We think she's pregnant. |
 Allie sure likes her sorbet! |
 And she loved it when Howard knocked the icicles down! Popsicle time! |
 Now we're talking! On Monday, a front end loader came. Now we can drive around the court without having to turn around! |