I was on my morning walk with Orson and I had the pleasure of seeing our neighbor, Eddy.   We started chatting and he reminded me that it was this time last year that my husband and I went through our first storms (2 in one week) in our home.  A big thanks (again) to Eddy, Brenda and Bob for bailing us out last February.  Invigorating…don’t you think?   Looking at our calm weather today…you would never guess this could happen.   What a difference a year makes!

The National Weather Service held a contest to name our wonderful storm we had last December.    We were out of power for 6 days with 3 teens, 3 cats and one pug snuggled up in our bedroom…cozy!   I just checked their site and we have to wait a few more weeks before they announce the storm’s official name on March 2nd at 1pm.  For the record, we submitted "The December to Remember".    NWS only has 5,000 storm names to choose from…I don’t like our odds!