Hey, all's well that ends well! A heartwarming story, very nice reading. And thanks for the pics.
Hair, please get a CO monitor if you can at all find one for the next time...there are horror stories on FR (and elsewere) about what CO fumes have done. I keep the gen as far from the house as I can get it.
Anyhow, I loved reading about how you guys coped with the power outage and cold and everything. It reminded me of how one winter about 15 years ago a bunch of us were up at the house in rural VA with our spouses and kids when an ice storm put the power out for several days. People didn't keep generators around then as they do now, but luckily we had a good supply of firewood and the stove ran on gas. We basically just all camped out in the one room that had a fireplace during the day. At night we used one hell of a lot of blankets and quilts and did OK. Went down the hill to the lake to bring back water to make the toilets work.
But the house was very old, built well before the advent of electricity, so we had a chance to see how people had lived in those days, sort of. 'Course no one had TV, so that whole part of the county basically stayed kind of bombed for a few days, for entertainment.
Will do. :~)
Imbibing corn by the gallon, right? ;o)