No electricity

We are camping at home this weekend. No electricity due to the heavy wind storms yesterday. The streets are littered with leaves, pine needles and branches. It smells like one giant Christmas tree outside.
I cooked eggs and Chris cooked bacon in the camper and after breakfast I led an expedition into our woods to see what the destruction there looked like.
One big tree fell down but only the very tip of it's crown was across the path and cleared away before we came along. Frankie found a small tree uprooted on the edge of the bunny meadow. One of the bridges was a big mess of leaves and debris- it looks like it was washed over by a once swollen creek.
After the hike we came home and played for awhile and then took naps.
On the way to religious ed we had to backtrack due to a tree in the road. We ended up being 15 minutes late to a canceled faith formation since the church and school were out of power too.
We went to the local library to sit it out and wait for mass. Mass was enjoyable- by candle light with an unplugged teen mass band. It wasn't quite so loud. Of course I heard nothing in the back with Miss crazy legs Alice.
We came home to a spaghetti dinner that Chris whipped up on the stove in the camper. He made a fire for all of us to warm up next to and read by. We told stories. Things are so much more "family" without electricity.
50,000 people without power here still. Puget hound power says we should be hooked up sometime Monday.