Expecting the Unexpected

Good morning! If I had written this about 3 hours ago I would not have called it a good morning. It all started yesterday afternoon. My dogs have been wild. It was 66 degrees outside. One would have thought they would have been happy. I went to pick up the hubby and he asked what was for dinner, I told him shrimp tacos. He wasnt feeling it. He suggested we just drive to our favorite mexican place. I told him we were eating at home since we have food. I remembered I had some breaded chicken tenders from a deli that I had gotten half off and I had bought some mac and cheese. Dinner change of plans cost us $5 instead of $40. I know that seems a little silly that a meal change would make one think their day wasnt going well. I was just trying to point out that I learned my lesson well last week when we ordered chinese when things werent going as planned.

I had been out feeding all the animals and saw that the bees were enjoying the warmer weather. We had already lost our smaller hive before it got cold. It wasnt a surprise but still very sad. We are doing our best to have bees. Mr Ladybug, i did finally tell him that I call him that on my blog and he wasnt offended or anything so its no longer our little secret anymore, decided to look in on the bees and they are doing fantastic! This makes us very happy. Anyway I had been at the hive earlier taking a video and pictures. The term "busy bees" is very accurate. On warm days in the winter, usually over 55 degrees the bees will clean house by removing all the bees that have died. You can see them along the board in the pic. As I was watching my husband inspect the hives from a safe distance I decided to go in the house and start dinner. I bee flew right into my face and stung me. On the way into the house to get the stinger our of my face another bee got stuck in my hair. We got that one out without injury to the bee or myself and I was able to get to safety. My reaction to stings seems relatively mild. My cheek is sore like a bruise and itchy. I think I will survive.

I had plans to do a bible study and have been excited about starting for a few weeks now only to have something pop up that make Thursdays not work for me. That was a bummer. I am pretty sure I can study the book on my own but I was so looking forward to meeting new friends and studying with an old one.

Since my morning plans had changed I was able to go with my daughter and take her puppy in to get spayed. Puppy hugs and kisses make everything better. This is one of my grand dogs, Sasha. She is so sweet.

Now we are expecting some yucky snowy icy weather into the weekend. Its easy to say our weekend is ruined but none of us have anywhere we have to be so we can stay home and be safe. Lots of times when they say our weather is going to be bad it misses us and thats awesome but one should always be prepared here are few things that we will be doing to insure if we lose power we arent too uncomfortable.

We do not have to worry about cooking since we have the wood stove. It will be meals as usual for us but if you do not have a way to heat things up I would suggest you think about having some things on hand. Your refrigerated foods should be fine for a day or two with no power.

We do not have to worry about heat since we have a wood stove. Dont worry I do not get paid for endorsing wood stoves. We have just been through a few power outages in our 28 years of marriage and have taken precautions to make things as comfy as possible. We will be moving wood closer to the house and have more inside the house so we dont have to go out and get if it gets too icky. We will also have plenty of kindling for starting fires in case we sleep too long and it goes out.

We have oil lamps and oil, flashlights that will be all charged up and candles.

I will be charging all electronics. Downloading a few things off amazon to watch if we lose wifi. Both college kids have battery bank thingies, you can tell I am the tech person in this house. NOT! My hubb and I share one since we dont really need it but thought one for camping and our other adventures might be a good idea.

Do all the dirty laundry. I know this seems like an odd one but if you do lose power for more than a few days you may need to do some laundry.

We will have to go out and check on all the animals like we do every day. They all have wooden building enclosures and are safe from the weather.

We are lucky enough to have a gas water heater so we can take hot showers and wash dishes with not problem.

If you have an out door gas grill or even a charcoal grill you can cook on those outside. We have done that before. If you have a camping stove make sure you have fuel for it. You can use that in the garage if its snowing.

The last thing that you have to have no matter what happens is tea. tea and if you forget more tea.

Life happens either according to our plans or not. We just have to learn to change right along with it. We dont have to like it but we do have to accept it or figure out how to change things. Nothing happens if we just get mad or sit around pouting.