Sunday, and larger trucks from GMB, the West Virginia company, began pulling into our neighborhood in the morning. We could hear them behind us and all around us. Then we saw this:
Notice that cherry picker on the other side of our back fence? Notice that now-brown tree limb that was tangled in our lines has fallen to the ground and the power lines are beginning to look normal?
Tom dragged that bad boy across the backyard, through the gate, and to the debris pile on our curb.
To keep myself from going crazy hoping and waiting and wishing for electricity, I kept reading my Mary Stewart book.
Finally, our power was restored at around 2:20 PM. I finished my book and, along with Tom, spent the day trying to get our house in some kind of order. The return of electricity comes with a dash of paranoia. Other customers have had power restored over the past few days only to lose it anywhere from two to 24 hours later. It’s hard to feel secure.
In addition, it’s thundering. It’s going to be a while before thunder stops sounding more ominous than normal. To help keep my anxiety in check, other than reading and cleaning, I began updating and revising this website throughout the day. If you’re reading this, you know I’ve tried to add something to all the days. I’ll try to compose a Sunday Sundries post after the fact, along with a Mindful Monday post, and that should give me some record of how this week has been.
Mostly, it’s been a long seven days… Thank you to people from all over the country who’ve texted, messaged, and called us. It really helps to know friends and family are thinking of us and wishing us well. I’ll also be replying to the comments left here while I wasn’t able to be online.
This is probably one of the very few times that an insanely loud monotone bzzzzzzzzzzz can be music to my ears! Thunder and other skin rippling explosions too, but without the symphony, the jazz, the jukebox, the metal, and the theater, those bangs are just awful stress inducing noises. So, bring out some ice cream, cakes, friends, in the cool night air with some Vince Guaraldi playing in the background.
You can never go wrong dancing with Snoopy and friends.