Ice Storms and the Eight Year Ago Milk Prices

Hello and Happy Lunar New Year day 2. We have awoke to an ice storm. These pictures but the last two are from last year in March 2025. The last two are this morning as of the writing of this post. Last March we had one of the worst ice storms that had occurred here since like the 50s. It was really scary trees were falling from the weight of the ice. The power lines were down for over three days. We used a generator for four days. It was costing almost $50 dollars a day to run everything here we needed to use. Gas prices were a bit higher at that time. We all felt like we were back in Hurricane Isabelle in 2003. We had lost power for nine days and we moved into our fifth wheel camper as we had a smaller generator and we were running our neighbors house too. They were elderly and it was September in NC so need I say more……. HOT! The girls and I washed clothes outside in a water trough. Anyway the ice storm had brought those memories back last year. 

The apple trees can be so tough

Riding in the car and Bruce turned on the brights. 
 

This morning February 18, 2026 right out my living room window. 

The cardinal in the tree. It’s still icing right now. 

Look at those prices that camp up yesterday. Thought I would share this. We certainly could use some of those prices again. Then maybe the wages will match buying food again. When Bruce and I got married in 1968, we struggled but we had a car payment, rent and car insurance, home phone and power bill, water bill etc. we could pay the bills and still have enough money to buy groceries/gas. No we didn’t have extra money to buy extra stuff but we did buy diapers sometimes as I used cloth at the beginning and then it was a real struggle. The washing machine my dad had bought me the plumbing in the wall ended up being messed up and was leaking on the neighbors below us. We didn’t know as the tiny kitchen had the set up for the washer. At that apartment I made the curtains with my Singer sewing machine. I actually didn’t like that machine at all as it was always in need of a repair. Finally I sold it in the Tidewater Trading Post and was able to add a little to get a newer machine. The Singer machine was from the 50s. I could sew like a pro with the new machine. I was making little crafts and paintings selling them at little craft shows mostly at schools in Norfolk. The struggle was real for sure. It fed my need to create. Well better go for today…… much love and be Full of the Fire Horse 🐎 Energy. 

Good vibes, 

Dawn Gallop 🏇 

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