SNOW & Christmas

Fri, Dec 18 it started to snow with the biggest flakes I think I have ever seen. RBM Christmas party was cancelled so I went home and started to decorate my tree. I was putting on the third string of lights when the lights went out!

I lit a group of candles and kept on decorating the tree. Chris & Karen Klimecko stopped over with to check in and see the tree in the candle light. I went to bed in hopes that the electric would be back on in the morning. Morning came with and I finished the tree and wrapped some gifts (no electricity needed). In the afternoon spent a little time in a travel trailer with a group getting warm. Plans for the night were made to go to an unoccupied house on campus that had a fireplace. Ten of us slept in the house for the night - most of us on the living room floor - I fed the fire for the night. Sun Karen K and her Mom (visiting from San Antonio) went to Lexington for a hotel room and shopping. Chris & went to stores in London looking for anything to heat with. We found & purchased a small bottled gas generator. When we got back to campus the electric was still not on so I packed a bag and headed back to Manchester to the BEST Western for the longest hot shower and the heat turned way up - after a wonderful nights sleep and another show I headed back to campus. The generator for what use to be the hospital was working now and the rooms were filling up. Hospital rooms of old have been turned into guest rooms for people to use when dropping things off at the mission - now were home for two nights. Computer room became my office with my laptop and jump drive with work files on it. Learned a new card game hand & foot. The electric came on for half of campus (we are split down the middle using two companies - end the line for both??) so I went back to the office to work. Electric had been on during part of the day at my apartment and then went back off around 5. The girls dorm had electricity so we moved to the girls dorm - moved in - had another group meal - the electric came back on that evening but most of us watched a little TV together, waited to see if it would stay on, and gave our homes a while to warm back up. After FIVE days the electricity was back on and we all went home. Spending this time together with RBM employees and their families was a time of getting to know each other better, eating together, and playing games together.

Christmas Eve candle light service a lovely and a group came over to my home for a glass of wine. Christmas we joined together again for a festive meal at the girls dorm.