70. Who Needs Electricity!

We awoke this morning to a sweet, cool breeze and no electricity.  This happens periodically and I suppose with more frequency than it does in town.  When it happens here, however, that means we don't even have water because of the electric pump on the well.  We can't even have our one cup of morning coffee.  

Oh, that's not entirely true, we could pretend we were camping and go to the motor home and fix it.  That's why we keep it, really, we don't camp much since we have stopped doing art shows.  It was a financial life saver then though.  If we are ever evacuated again it would come in handy, as long as we remember to keep the battery charged.  The only time we have been told to leave the canyon we only had thirty minutes and of course, the battery was dead.  Lesson learned!

Certainly it is a wonderful earthquake emergency kit to the tenth power.  Trisha used to use it for her little cabin when she visited from Switzerland until she found out that we have mice occasionally.  Hello...we live in the country.  Guess it never occurred to her.  She would really stop visiting altogether if she found out that Maggie cornered a tarantula in the spare bedroom a couple of months ago.  

We've only seen...maybe three of the hairy little things, but one would be in the bedroom.  They are harmless but just a little alarming I have to admit.  Bob captured it with a kitchen towel as it pretended to be invisible and put it gently in the flower bed.  Maggie is always so proud when she corners something.  She is like Lassie when Timmy fell in the well, not happy until you come and see what she has discovered.  I feel very comfortable that she would wake us if anything untoward were to happen in the night.  Things out of the ordinary get her attention and she lets you know.  She doesn't normally bark so we always seek her out.

The electricity issue wasn't expected to be resolved until about nine-thirty so we decided a breakfast run was in order.  It's something we rarely do because of the seventeen mile drive but what with no electricity and all it just seemed the thing to do.  We tried a newer place and boy was it good.  Tri-tip and eggs for $5.95!  We will definitely go back there.  Isn't it fun to do something out of the ordinary, get a little crazy and just jump in the car, no make-up just a comb through the hair and a smile.  It was rejuvenating and just felt plain good.  Now I'm going to enlist Bob's help and go out and plant the new gardenia in the corner between the water heater closet and the hot tub.  Keep your fingers crossed, it will need all the help it can get!