Talk about blow hards....

[Bucko]

Mother Nature sure gave us a blow last night and today. Gusts 80 mph, trees down everywhere, power out to 1.5 million.

I got up at 6 a.m. and fired up the generator, hauled wood in the house and got the fireplace roaring, and then did the most important thing -- got the coffee pot going.

I can camp out like this for days. [img]http://wines.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Innkeeper]

How come the generator doesn't fire up automatically? Our has three times in the last month. Same kind of weather.

Might it not be time to pop one of those CDPs in the cellar?

[Glass_A_Day]

Coffee in the AM, but sounds like a great excuse for Port in the PM.

[Kcwhippet]

Been living in our home here for over sixteen years and we've lost power twice for a total of about five hours. I guess that's a good thing. I remember when we lived on the outer banks and the hurricanes would scream up the coast. We were out for days every time.

[wondersofwine]

Heard that the parking garage (and lobby?) of the building where Rush Limbaugh broadcasts from Palm Beach, Florida flooded yesterday and he couldn't get home for hours. Finally left in a staffer's SUV which was high enough off the ground so that the tail pipe wouldn't be drowned. He missed a dinner engagement because he was stuck at the studio.

[Bucko]

I think that might be our next home remodel adventure -- a propane generator with an automatic transfer switch. The power has already gone out twice this winter.

Already have a bottle of CdP open and a bottle of Duque de Braganca 20 Year Tawny for this evening.

[Drew]

Been enjoying the 60+ temps today and forecast thru the weekend. Kickin back and grilling steaks on the grill with PLENTY of power, heck, my furnace hardly kicks on this time of year.....WW made me say these awful things since he's out of town.

Drew

[Bucko]

I appreciate that -- I was beginning to think you didn't love me anymore. [img]http://wines.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

Still stoking the fireplace and feeding the generator -- it's beginning to feel like work, grinch, grinch.

[hotwine]

Ho, hum... The red oak leaves are bright crimson now, barely twsting in the gentle breeze with 70F temp. Life is tough.

[Bucko]

May a skunk with bowel problems set up housekeeping in your favorite smoker.

Carnack

[winoweenie]

Ran like a scalded cat outa San Diego whenced I heard you were sending that stuff down there. Back home and comfy. Looking at 75* today. Looking forward to some rain here Sun and Mon. WW

[hotwine]

O Carnack... you'd apppreciate my neighbor's
tale of a few weeks ago:

He noticed the metal plate he uses as a rain cap on the chimney of his brick pit kept winding up on the ground. So at dusk one evening, he made sure the plate was covering the chimney and sat back on his patio to watch and wait with a pair of binoculars. Before long, the plate began to slide to one side, then dropped off onto the ground.... and two pointed little ears poked up above the rim, then little black eyes and a button nose, till finally out crawled a big ol' momma 'coon, followed by a single young'un.

When they had sauntered off to find supper, he went over and checked the inside of his pit and found she had made a comfy nest in there (and really trashed the place out in the process). So he covered the chimney with a heavy weight that they couldn't move, then spent the next morning cleaning up their mess.

Probably the same family whose young'un bit me last year.

[Bucko]

"Probably the same family whose young'un bit me last year."


Made the coon sick, I bet. [img]http://wines.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]

[hotwine]

Naw, jes' a lil' tipsy (hic).

[Bucko]

The power is back on! Just in time to watch the Cowboys pluck the Falcons tonight. [img]http://wines.com/ubb/biggrin.gif[/img]