My 5-Day St. Louis Power Outage

After getting power back last night sometime, tonite was spent cleaning out the freezers. While doing that, thought of writing this song (You know the tune, join on in!):

Disposing the freezer contents, thanks to AmerenUE, I tossed:
12 frozen croisants,
11 chicken legs,
10 2" boneless porkchops,
9 boxes of cornmeal mix,
8 pork cutlettes,
7 assorted leftovers,
6 pounds of butter,
5 pounds of bacon!
4 entire chickens,
3 bags of venison,
2 bags of veggies,
and a bag of flour with an Arabic label! OR:
and an whole frozen Thanksgiving turkey!

Needed to share that with somebody, so it ends up on my blog.

Imagine carting all that in one giant trash bin to the curb. I truly feel a bit old and creaky tonite!

Ouch!

Every muscle hurts! Ferguson experienced a really strong thunderstorm Monday night that took out my power for 33 hours . . . so what do you do with all that time with no electricity?

If you have a yard like mine, you're out cleaning up the destruction - limbs, twigs, and sticks!! I filled 5 of those 30-gallon paper sacks with that kind of stuff, still have one limb I need to use the saw on, and today's trash day. Well - the back yard had 3 bags full, plus the regular trash can in the garage. Today's trash day and with no electricity, I couldn't get the bags out of the electric garage door. Now, with power finally restored, I need to drag this stuff out, and am still in my pj's! Any doubts that I'm blond?