Thanks for your good wishes, Jinx, Dana, and Lookout - I appreciate it. I'm so glad it wasn't worse. All the animals are ok (but yes, we had a major puddle in the foyer from our elderly chocolate lab - your mental images were probably right on, lookout!) and my daughter has assured me that next time (!) she will get outside,
then call 911,
then call me. I guess we never know what we'll do in an emergency until it happens; she did ok.
And hopefully we'll have heat sometime today! I don't mind tending the two fireplaces, but talk about high-maintenance. They need tending every fifteen minutes or so.
Zengum, thanks for posting the photo - it's interesting to see where people live. I'd also prefer trees to endless buildings (we have a great view over a rural valley from our place ... I love it even if the teenagers find it boring). Sorry that you're going to have noise and dust right outside. Bleh.
