Because of the intense wind, we decided against leaving the house until it died down around 1 pm. The 5 of us (three humans and two dogs) cuddled under blankets on the couch to stay warm since our heater wasn't operating. Lucky for us, we just installed a new gas range over the holidays so we were able to cook a hot breakfast and make coffee (also lucky for us, Allison--Edward's girlfriend--had just given us a pound of ground coffee, otherwise Dave would have had to grind some of our regular whole beans with the mortar and pestle. He's had a lot of practice grinding seemingly ungrindable things in the past so it wouldn't have been too big of a deal...).
After I came home from work the boys decided that they were really bored since all the things they would normally do to occupy themselves requires electricity (Wii, computer games, movies, etc.). I had no problem settling down in the wingback chair, reading a fantastic book called Truck, A Love Story.
During a break in the rain and before it got too dark we took the pooches to the park to de-energize them. There were lots of other folks there with their dogs doing the exact same thing. This is a picture of our family being "tough". Don't you just love Dave's workout pants and raincoat? Ooh, and how about my cool new rubber boots I just bought at the Tractor Supply Store? (We look cool and we know it!)
For dinner we cooked up some of the homemade coarse-grained semolina pasta my Daddy and I made on New Year's Eve with some homemade marinara sauce augmented with kalamata olives, marinated artichoke hearts, white wine, pecorino romano cheese, and a glug or four of champagne (we have tons left over from the party and just don't know enough ways to get rid of 4 open bottles of flat champagne...). The dish turned out delightful; I can't complain that the power outage caused us any caloric trauma. =o)
Cooking by candle light isn't nearly as hard as it might sound:
Afterwards we went to the UCD men's basketball game against UC Riverside (Edward's alma mater). Both teams sucked (and probably usually suck), with a final semi-victory by Davis of 58:54. At least it was warm in the Pavillion and there were lights. We considered bringing out laptops and Nintendo DS's to charge them up but decided against it...
This is us screwing around at the game during one of the millions of time-outs called:
After that, the boys went to see some lame-o alien movie while I stayed home and kept my Energy Star self occupied with a candle-lit bath and more reading. Sigh, life is hard sometimes but we just have to pull through.
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