Life of Wry

I’d just finished making dinner, had just served up the plates, and Jim and I were just about to carry said plates to the table.. when poof, the lights went out. (Turns out, a tree fell on a PG&E line down the street and knocked out power for 226 of us.)

I grabbed my phone-slash-flashlight to illuminate my way over to the candles, selected a few and fired them up, then sat down to eat.

It was a pretty decent dinner. I’d cleaned out the freezer earlier in the day and decided I needed to make something for dinner that made use of a frozen pie shell, a packet of frozen Italian sausages, and a bag of frozen butternut squash. I entered those ingredients into the googles and came up with “Butternut Squash Quiche with Italian Sausage and Sage.” (wow.. you go googles). I still had to go the the coop for eggs, cream and goat cheese .. and salad stuff, but was pleased and amused by the whole execution.

Not bad. Especially as that pie shell was easily 3 years old and had been a nuisance in our freezer pretty much all that time.

We spent the rest of the night next to the fire for max warmth and coziness.

We went to bed kind of early (for me), and power came back on at about 11:00.. just four hours of dark/coldness.