I have good news, and I have bad news. Bad news first. If you recall, I mentioned doing a bunch of cooking while we were here at Christmas, and stocking my freezer up with containers full of a beautiful homemade marinara sauce. Well, a week or so after we left, Austin and a couple of his buddies came up here for the weekend. When they opened the door to the house, they were greeted with an horrific odor. At first, he thought something had died, but finally he discovered that our refrigerator wasn't working. Poor kids - spending the day hauling rotten food down to the trash bin wasn't exactly the weekend they had planned. Talk about bad timing. Usually this refrigerator doesn't have much of anything in it, but it wasn't until later, when I remembered what was in the freezer, that I almost burst into tears. This house happened to come with one of those fancy, built-in, Sub-Zero refrigerators, and it was the thought of finding someone to fix it, and how much it would cost, that almost brought John to tears. Now here's the good news. Turns out we had just blown a fuse. Thank goodness we discovered that before paying for an expensive house call. If only someone had been here when it happened, we could have saved all the food - one downside to being just a week-ender.
Another down-side is that when we heard that a bad ice-storm was headed this way, John had to make a mad dash up here to be sure all the hoses were disconnected, and to do whatever he could to prepare the house for the blow. He barely made it back out in time before the storm hit, and it hit with a vengeance. Pretty much everyone in town was house-bound for days, many without heat or power. In near-by San Marcos, they had a tornado thrown in for good measure, and several places had roofs ripped off. We hurried back this weekend to check on the house, and luckily, everything seems fine. Now for some really good news. Between this storm, and the rains at Christmas, we've had somewhere around 14 or 15 inches of rain total (more than the last two years combined, I suspect), and our creek is now full to overflowing. Glory Hallelujah! There's even water on the road again, at our low-water crossings, and I found myself speeding up as I approached the dip each time, for the sheer joy of making a big splash. And speaking of joy - nothing has ever sounded as sweet to my ears as once again hearing the water as it spills over the little dams in our creek.
Another down-side is that when we heard that a bad ice-storm was headed this way, John had to make a mad dash up here to be sure all the hoses were disconnected, and to do whatever he could to prepare the house for the blow. He barely made it back out in time before the storm hit, and it hit with a vengeance. Pretty much everyone in town was house-bound for days, many without heat or power. In near-by San Marcos, they had a tornado thrown in for good measure, and several places had roofs ripped off. We hurried back this weekend to check on the house, and luckily, everything seems fine. Now for some really good news. Between this storm, and the rains at Christmas, we've had somewhere around 14 or 15 inches of rain total (more than the last two years combined, I suspect), and our creek is now full to overflowing. Glory Hallelujah! There's even water on the road again, at our low-water crossings, and I found myself speeding up as I approached the dip each time, for the sheer joy of making a big splash. And speaking of joy - nothing has ever sounded as sweet to my ears as once again hearing the water as it spills over the little dams in our creek.
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