Try sitting in a hot, humid house, with no electricity, everyone out of conversation, praying for the lights and the wi-fi to come back. Best to keep the windows shut, because it’s 90 degrees outside. Just enough juice from the small generator to run the kitchen and keep the food from spoiling (thank goodness for that, anyway).

Candlelight is lovely, but not when it’s your only source of light. There are a couple of flashlights, but it’s hard to hold one of those and a book at the same time. And my iPad’s battery is down to 44%. Gotta hurry. What to do when that runs out?

And we didn’t get the worst of it, here in southern Georgia. I can’t imagine what the poor folks who got slammed with the full force of Hurricane Helene in Florida are going through right now. My biggest problem is boredom.

So I’m using a little of my battery power to write to you good readers out there, just to have someone else to talk to, and to let the world know what’s happening here.

It feels like 50 years ago — ancient times, now — when you made your own entertainment without the aid of FB friends and chatbots. It’s a lost art, and I miss it.

So, until the electricity gods give us back our power, it’s me . . .

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
9/27/24