Started the generator again this morning about 9:00. Tried to reach the 'senior-aged' woman next door to have her over for breakfast. No response. When her caregiver arrived, we found she had already gone out to breakfast with the neighbors from down the hill.

More Photoshop work. Finished splicing in our son, then spent several hours retouching various items out of the picture. Finally turned the thing into our Christmas card for the year. Only printed a few before the ink cartridge ran dry.

Maria helped re-decorate the Christmas tree at Crystal and Nate's. The tree is still down on our mountain road, now accompanied by a 5-foot high boulder.

Shut down the generator at 3:00 when the power company restored service. Running the generator for 6 hours takes a full tank down into the reserve zone. Love my generator, a Honda ES6500 that we've had for 11 years. Total 26 hours without grid power. Pretty common during winter in the mountains of central California. The rain was not very heavy, and stopped for much of the day. According to the weather report, another ass kicking starts tomorrow. A big one.

Here we go again...