Ice Storm and Electric out

So, we had an ice storm move through the area - The roads were vicious yesterday morning, and M's boss called him and told him not to come in. We were SO excited to have him home, and the kids were rarin' to go for an awesome day with dad. However,... the power went out in the late morning, and they haven't gotten it back up yet - a day and ahalf later. M went and drove up to Winchester to buy a generator (Berea and Richmond were out of them.) I was SO glad he did! Normally the electric is off for only a couple of hours at the most, but it looks like it'll be much longer than that! We set the kids up in the basement playroom with the space heater run off the generator - and got it set up so we wouldn't lose any of our venison in the deepfreeze. Today I requisitioned the extension cord from the fridge so i could check e-mail and update on the blog. It's so cold in the house that the burger i got out to defrost is still frozen solid just sitting on the counter-top; so i'm not concerned about pulling it off the generator for a half hour or so. You know, in hind sight,... maybe i should have let marke get the wood burning stove this past holiday season rather than encouraging him to wait a year ;-)