There is a big winter storm coming, so Mommy got the day off from work. Which meant I got to play a lot more with her. Since Daddy's birthday is tomorrow, we went ahead and used the extra time to make him his birthday "cake", which he cleverly calls "Apple Thing" since he can never remember the real name. I got to do a lot of helping, especially unwrapping the caramels and stirring things up. I really like to help Mommy in the kitchen (even when I don't want any of what we made).
Of course, after we made it, we didn't see any reason to wait until tomorrow to eat some, so Mommy and Daddy had a little early birthday "Apple Thing".
The storm started this afternoon, with heavy ice and freezing rain. When Mommy and Daddy were getting ready to go to bed, Daddy heard some dripping in the bedroom and discovered that the window screens had ice on the inside that was melting and pooling up at the bottom of the window. It couldn't drain out because the whole outside was iced up, so it was dripping inside! They had to take all the north-facing screens out to fix it.
Then about 11:30 PM the power went out. Daddy had wanted to be prepared, so he had gone out earlier in the day and bought gas for the generator. The house was plenty warm enough right now, so he didn't fire it up, instead waiting to see if the power was still out in the morning.
