The latest

Last week I promised images of our picturesque, snow-laden paradise. Since we ended up with the frozen tundra instead, I've been a little busy and haven't gotten around to posting the images. So here we go with a little update on what Kentucky looked like over the past week.

This is a picture of the ice on the bush across the street when we first woke up last Wednesday morning.

Pretty much all the trees looked like this, except for the ones that had collapsed under the weight of the ice. Those looked like this instead:

Yes, that IS the apple tree that used to fill up our back yard. It's a bit more broken than that now, and is surely a goner. The problem is complicated by the fact the the tree has sandwiched our power line within its collapsed branches. Here's why this is complicated:

1) The power is still ON, which means we are a low priority for the electric company.

2) The tree is probably not their responsibility, but they'll probably have to come out here to tell me that
3) Either way, they have to turn the power off to remove the tree
4) The masthead for the electric has been bent off the house.
5) The masthead is not the electric company's responsibility
6) We can't fix the masthead until the power line is free, which can't happen until the tree is cut, which can't happen until the power is turned off, which is not something that rates as a priority for the power company right now.

Needless to say, I think our back yard is gonna be screwed up for a while.