Northeast Gardening: weather in the garden # 138, 0 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
Robindog, Thanks for caring, but we are keen campy campers. Wood stove kept us warm enough and we cooked on it so we were well fed. I made a big pot of Portuguese Kale soup for the storm and a mess of White chocolate macadamia cookies. Kale/potatoes/carrots from garden on Monday. Sauce and slow roasted tomatoes from pantry as well as Smoked Turkey stock. It was yummy. Today the sun came out and GH got up to over 70 while wood stove was keeping kitchen and family room at 63, so we opened the doors and let the passive heat in. Winds took out some very large branches on pine and cedars, but DH got out today with the chainsaw to clear the driveway, while I cleaned the snow off the GH windows. We won't know how much damage we have until snow is off the branches. We finally got power on at 3 today so we are all good now. Town has some water damage to the docks and low lying streets. DH and a storm refuge friend who moved into our house went out to check on many friend's houses and to cheock on some pets whose owners were stuck in Hyannis on Monday for Medical reasons and couldn't get back. Dogs and cats at several houses all OK and owners relieved to be back today.