Scenes from a fortnight

The preparations

I forgot to buy bread.

 so I baked some.

...got to make the best of it

Luckily I have a thing about candles

because boy did we need them

for reading...

and cooking

and eating

shrimp gumbo

flank steak

tomato and brie salad

or for just sitting around

and wondering when the lights would come back on

or when we would run out of candles, or patience, or sanity. And on the seventh day, they did.

And so did the nor'easter.

but luckily by then we had heat

and the same President we started out with a very long week before

and somehow the milk didn't sour

and the streets were warm enough where it was all a memory very soon

so we can  return to the ordinariness of life.

And thank our lucky stars.