2023 Christmas contuined

 Christmas came and went and now on to a new year.  I will post some Christmas pictures.

Christmas 2023

 We had a lovely day with our family.. Sara, Archie, Stephanie, Quinn and Aurora, Jacob and guests Arnold and Laurel who joined us for the day.  Many lovely gifts were opened and ham, breakfast casserole, fruit, candy and Sweet Potato biscuits were enjoyed by all.  I got new ceramic critters for my gardens. The family took a woods walk and the twins and Archie climbed on the largest white pine in Maine while Aunt Sara    looked on.

 

December 19, 2023 flood

 Monday afternoon started a heavy rain which flooded many roads and uprooted many trees.  Our generator was a wonderful investment.  Most of Sumner is without power still and all of Buckfield  and Hartford are still without power.  Rumford is flooded and people have been washed away in the flooded rivers.  Beth barely made it home Monday night as a large tree almost fell on her car.  The winds were very strong.Charlie made it home fine.  

Decorated world

 The Sunday night snow covered the entire town with trees hanging heavy with snow laden branches.  Every tiny limb was wrapped in cotton   and glittered in the sun like lace,  It was too beautiful to really describe, but I loved driving through the winter wonderland.

December 4 snow

 We lost power about 2:30 a.m.  Generator lit up everything until about 8:30 a.m. when we ran out of propane.  The gas people forgot to fill up the new tank.  finally about 10:00 the tank got filled.  We had about 6 inches of beautiful snow.  

First December snow

 We got a lovely snow storm this afternoon.  It made the world magical.