Moosup weather mix . . .

View from the ship as we leave Skagway.

So much for nice crispy bacon, cheesy eggs and crunchy raisin toast for breakfast :( Started to make my own breakfast at home but since Grampa was going out for coffee I decided to tag along. Bad idea. The snow, a few inches that Grampa had already cleaned up on the driveway, was turning into rain. The ride to Lizzy B's was terrible; the state trucks hadn't done much of anything and it was treacherous. Got to Lizzy B's, had hot coffee, gave my order and Bam, the power went off. A man near the window eating with his young son said the power lines were shaking like mad. There was an accident on Gibson Hill Road and that was the end of breakfast as usual. The state trooper parked at the end of Gibson Hill so no one could interfere as the two rescue trucks arrived but . . . a state plow truck came to a dead stop in front of the restaurant and a car with three people in it ran right into the state truck. Then they spun around came into the restaurant parking lot got out and there was quite a scene as they went to talk to the trooper and the truck driver. I believe that their windshield was smashed in by something that was sticking out of the back of the truck. I guess they were lucky because it didn't hit anyone in the car. They were still wrangling about "whose fault" when we left and decided not to do all the errands we had originally planned to do. I hope no one got hurt in the first accident.

So we're home now and I've put on a couple of eggs to boil as we just had coffee and cold pumpkin muffins. Younger brother and his wife are supposed to be leaving for North Carolina this morning but perhaps they'll wait until the snow gets washed away by the rain since Connecticut isn't doing anything on the highways :( Turkeys!

Lucked out for the past couple of days. On my visit to Southbridge I brought home some apples that had just been hand picked at a local orchard. So we'll be having homemade applesauce to go with the pork chops. Never too much pork and applesauce! Then younger brother and his wife gave me some beef stew, garlic bread and tapenade with crackers because they weren't going to be home to eat for a bit. Wow, no cooking for a day or two. I like that. Well, back to reading the paper and finishing my breakfast.

Quote: Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, gives a kind of credit to a false accusation. ---Massinger