A good and very unusual day yesterday.
Went to church at 11 - barely made it because my over-desk clock's battery is dying and I keep forgetting to change it, have no AA batteries handy... Right now it is 7:06 but clock insists it is 6:40. Maybe take down the clock until a battery is produced?
My favorite seminarian, Elastigirl, preached THE most wonderful sermon. Oh my gosh. She framed it by saying, "what if you were writing a sermon on today's scriptures?" and described her process throughout the sermon. At the end she said, "So...what if you were preaching a sermon this week? Because you will be...every one of you. Wherever you go, whatever you do. What will your sermon say?"
Tears. So powerful.
Went to Costco afterward, then headed north to my town. When I arrived at home at about 2:00, there was a truck in my driveway (blocking where I park) and a young couple had torn the electric breaker box off the side of the house and were doing something to the place it came from.
WHAT!?
A quick call to DH confirmed that he had scheduled an electrician to come out today and replace it because it was the one probably original to the house, and therefore quite hazardous. (When we moved into this 1927 house seven years ago, there was ONE grounded outlet, with a three-prong plug. ONE. And it was inside the bathroom cupboard. Needless to say, we have done a lot since then...had to.)
Hmm. No electricity. Quick, toss the Costco food in the fridge. Now what to do?
It was very, very quiet without the AC, fans, computer noise. Nice. My regular Sunday afternoon activities include cooking for the week...scratch that. Tidying up in the office...can't see well enough to see the papers to file them, scratch. Vacuuming...nope. Laundry...uh uh. Blogging, checking email, listening to radio...clearly no.
So I did some sweeping, and looked at the notes I took from the sermon, and thought about it. Then DH called and asked me to run an errand out his way (he was working inside a big warehouse) I did that, headed for exercise class. Two classes back to back.
Returned home at 5:45...electrician STILL there. Still no power. Very cute.
Hmm, what else could I do...took dogs for extra long walk, they loved it! Put away dishes...took a shower...read by a window.
DH called at 7:30, asked if I had made dinner. I said NO, still no power! We met at a Cajun place where I had fish tacos, yum! Returned home at 8:30, STILL no power, electrician still working. Give me a break.
It came back on at about 9:00. The ice cream sure did get soft, but otherwise no ill effects that I know about.
Very instructive, this day. I learned several things:
- If I can't check email and blogs continuously, I imagine terrible things having happened to my loved ones and the news awaiting me there
- I've never wanted to vacuum so much as when I had no power to do it
- Silence sounds good
- The dogs don't like having someone bang on the side of the house for 7+ hours, and who can blame them?
- I am awfully lucky to have all the luxuries (they are not just conveniences) that I do.
- I am lucky that the ability to use them went away for a little while so I could think about this.
- And that the power, and the AC, came back on by bedtime.
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