Fortunately it did help us to get our power back on sooner – Yeah – Heat and Water – and I was getting tired of cooking on my husband’s old (very old) boyscout camp stove (thank you Coleman for having products that last like an energizer bunny).

What help save us was that we weren’t bored – with a blazing fires in the fireplace on one side of the house and a wood stove on the other side we kept warm and plenty of time to try to catch up on our reading! I thought you’d like to know that the day before power came back on and when my husband was going into no TV melt down because he’d read and re-read the books he had on hand that he read not one but two of my romance novels. He also finally admitted how smart I am to keep MY shelves in the bookcase full!

With cars, though, most of the time you can get away with just describing the car as a sedan, SUV, pickup, truck, sports car, luxury sedan, station wagon, etc. without having to mention a specific make.

Vegemar might be a stretch, as it’s a combination of the names Vegemite and Marmite, but it’s not a trademarked name, and people would get the idea of what you’re talking about. (Well, at least Aussies and Brits would.) And you could describe the thick brown paste that looked like chocolate, but was really a yeast extract.

These names all came out of MY head, (and I DID Google them…uh…excuse me, did an online search of them) but anyone can feel free to use them, if they want to. I’m not going to copyright them, so more than one author is free to pick them up, as long as you don’t get offended if someone else uses them, too.