Day # 5 (February 19, 2021) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RYDER!

Five days in.  View from our bedroom window.

Einar left Monday and came back on Thursday, when I lured him inside with cat food.  I didn't let him back out because temperatures were still below freezing. By Friday, he was adjusting to being indoors.

We turned our water off at the street on Sunday, February 14, after filling the bathtubs for flushing water and some bottles for drinking water.  We briefly turned the water back on Tuesday to refill tubs and bottles.  We were going to turn it back on Friday, but alas!  Most of Austin was without water, including us.

With no idea when the water would be back on, it was time to harvest snow to refill the tubs at least.

Now the snow was our friend.

We filled the ice chest several times.

But the back steps are still very icy.

We had electricity and natural gas, so melted snow for washing dishes.  I learned that a pot full of snow equals about 1/4 pot of water.