Guest Blog: It's Electric

There's nothing like going without electricity for awhile to help you appreciate your blessings.  After approximately 60 hours without power--courtesy of Hurricane Irene--here's a partial list of things for which I have a renewed sense of appreciation:

• ice cubes available 24/7 in virtually unlimited quantities
• air conditioning
• internet accessibility
• cold milk
• walking on the treadmill
• toast
• melted cheese (on anything!)
• microwave ovens
• ceiling fans
• no lines at the gas station (luckily our tanks were full but there were plenty of lines at the few working gas stations around town)
• friends who check on you when they know your power is out
• neighbors who string an extension cord from their generator through your back yard so you can plug in your fridge
• being able to see well enough after nightfall to keep reading the book you can't put down
• a land line 
• a friend with power who lets you come over and charge up your cell phones and Kindle
• the battery-operated iPod dock my husband bought me for Mother's Day
• dishwashers
• ice cream
• clean laundry
• blow dryers
• getting light with the flip of a switch
• the luxury of an extra bedroom on the bottom floor when it's too hot to sleep upstairs
• 4-burner camp stoves
• batteries
• picnic tables
• disposable plates, cups and silverware

With about half of our town still without power, we feel blessed to be back on the grid!

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