I am freezing my ass off in 69 degree air conditioned happiness at the moment, blissfully ignoring my carbon imprint right now. Why? Because I have just gone 162 hours without POWER!, ala the inconvenience of Hurricane Ike.

We are all okay. We have all our limbs, we have all of our structures on our property, and Mower and I didn't even try to kill each other over the last cold soda in the house. The kids weathered the storm and the subsequent shuffling back and forth to my mom's house when we determined she had POWER! on Sunday, 36 hours after we, and all of Houston and surrounding areas, lost our beloved POWER!

Pictures and our story to follow. Just wanted to say we're alive and cold and loving every second of it.