I got the Power!

Big storm Thursday night, lots of rain and strong wind (60 mph). Wake up Friday morning to no power. Look outside. Lots of trees down. Check the local newspaper via the cell phone and see that power for most of Haverhill should be restored by 5am....it is 6am. Assume power should be restored soon. Joe goes to work. Amy stays home with the kids. Joe checks the National Grid website to get an update. Finds the outage map below. Joe thinks "That's a lot of people with out power"

Joe then finds the following website. Verifies orginal thought - 57K without power. He thinks "Assessing the condition? They said the power would be on at 5am it is 11 am. Uncle Danny at Duke Power would not let this happen" and then he comes to the conclusion "this is not good"

Joe calls Amy. Amy confirms that the power is still not on. The house temp is at 58. Breast Milk in freezer may thaw out. Amy calls neighbor for help. They have multiple generators. Neighbor hooks up their generator to the freezer with the breast milk. Amy then finds out their other generators are not at their house. Amy feels like a jerk. Amy calls the local Home Depot and asks if they have generators. They laugh. She calls Lowes they laugh. Joe finds finds a store with a generator. Buys the generator. Drives home. Starts to hook up new generator. Power goes back on.

We may have over reacted in buying the generator, but last year it was 4 days before we had power. As of this morning there were still 50K houses with out power in our county. Perhaps we were first in line rather than last. Oh well, we are now the proud owners of a 5,000W generator. Powerful enough to run the furnance, fridge, some lights, and a TV or two. We are a litte bummed we did not get to use the new generator. We are both secretly wanting another power outage.

Enough of that, here are some fun photos!

Having Fun

Ice Ice Baby

The last time Joe skated, was March 1996....almost 14 years ago. Santa gave Tommy ice skates this past Christmas. Eventually, Joe was going to have to get back on the ice because Amy can't skate......Today was the day.

We all went to the Haverhill Veterans Memorial Ice Rink for open skating. It was a great time.

Joe tying Tommy's skates...It brought back memories of Grandpa Dubow tying Joe's skates about 28 years ago.

When Joe received his skates from the rental counter he said that the skates were older than he was....then said if they were good enough for Bobby Orr, they would be good enough for him.

Tommy watching Joe do a warm up lap

And we can't forget about Kate!!!

2009 In Pictures w/ Music

A little late......but here it is

We Be Crawlin

Body Parts

So I am up stairs in our bed room putting away some clothes and I hear Tommy utter the following sentences:

Bum Crack!
Mommy has a bum crack!
Kate has a bum crack!
Tillie Has A Bum Crack!!
TOMMY Has A Bum Crack!!!

Then I hear him run up the stairs.  He runs into our room and grabs the back of my pants and starts pulling. He gets a big smile and yells:

DADDY HAS A BUM CRACK!!!!

I am not exactly sure what happened down stairs, but some how he found out that there is a crack between two bum cheeks and that everyone has the crack and that it is called a bum crack.

Amy claims she did not teach him about bum crack....hmmmm...Tillie? Kate?

I wonder at school today if he asked Ms Monique, Ms Tanya or Ms Laly about bum cracks.

Hockey Night at Fenway

Through a connection at work I scored some tickets to the Boston College / Boston University hockey game at Fenway Park. Papa and Grandpa Dubow flew out, bundled up and went to the game with me and Amy. While it was very cold (23 degrees with wind and snow), we had a great time. The ballpark was packed and the atmosphere was great......which was aided by the popular warming agent.....cold beer.

Checkout that warm hat on Papa

The seats we had were great ....... for a a baseball game, but not for a hockey game......but we could see the game easily on the Jumbo-Tron

You can see it snowing in the video