Many of you may remember the horrible ice storm we had in December 2007 that put 250,000 people in the Oklahoma City metro and a million people statewide out of power.  That storm really tore up my yard and house when the huge tree you see in the photo above dropped a few branches on [...]

This tree is finally dead after I have cut roots, cut the bark, and poisoned it.  After the terrible ice storm we had back in December we lost power for a week.  These fences were covered by trees all the way around.  I have poisoned them and cut them down over the last few months [...]

This morning I woke up expecting to see ice all over the trees and power lines like we did in December but happy to see the temperature was above freezing and there were very few ice sickles. I was shocked to see rain dripping from the ceiling in four places in our den.  We just [...]

Hello everyone, It is almost midnight on a Friday night and I just got home from taking my son’s friends back home.  They had an enjoyable evening at a concert.  Not exactly the kind of music that I can stomach but in all fairness, my parents did not like what I listened to either.  The [...]

In my last post, I told how I was going to work on the antenna to get the ice storm damage repaired.  Larry Cline came over yesterday and we took that antenna down, repaired, and installed it back on the tower better than it was before.  I turned on the ham radio and made a [...]

Good morning everyone, I am anxiously awaiting the sun to return and the temperature to rise a bit.  Every since the ice storm in December, life has been out of order.  We have been slowly getting back to normal.  Yesterday was a big step in getting back to normal when the city of Del City’s [...]

Well today we were finally back to normal as far as going back to work.  We did have one good thing happen today that made it special and that was to cut our tree down.  Actually it was my neighbor’s tree that was hanging over in our yard.  That tree has been in our sewer [...]

I just wanted to post to say Happy New Year to everyone.  It is hard to believe it is 2008 and that time is going so fast.  We had a quiet New Year’s eve last night and it was peaceful.  Today, Kevin and I went to the backyard and installed the new anchor rods that [...]

Well everyone, we finally have our power back on after six days.  The lights came on at 5:57 pm last night and we were just thrilled.  It is hard to describe how you feel short tempered and lack of patience when your power is off.  On Wednesday we went and bought us a generator at [...]

Welcome OG&E!  I cannot tell you what a welcome sight to see these trucks on the next street over from mine.  We lost power on Sunday, December 9, 2007 and as of today, the 14th we are still without power.  This is the first time this week we have seen the electric company in our [...]