This takes the place of Sednesday night!!

It's 8:19 a.m. on Thursday night.  It's not like I forgot to write last night.  It was a circumstance beyond my control.  Our power went out (a couple of times) and it was out for over 3 hours.  I could have written in a notebook or something, but I made the decision to do it this morning and hope you will forgive me. Sheila sat upstairs in the dark and commented on the fact that it came at a better time as we were done with our dinner and even though it did interrupt her dish washer and her washing the clothes it was not a bad thing.  We used our flashlight for a while and then decided to check out our emergency kit.  I found my hand cranked radio and got it out so I could listen to the Jazz game.  I promptly broke it.  Then we broke (an interesting example of the various meaning and uses for the same word) out the new items that Sheila had put into the kit.  She got a hand-motion generated flash light and I got the radio-alarm-flashlight gizmo that did work and I listened to a bit of the 1st half of that game.  But it got quiet tiring and so at half time I decided to call it a day and read my chapter by flashlight, do my push ups in the dark and of course pray IS light, but doesn't need light.  Sheila stayed u0p and the power did come back on after 9 ( was in bed around 8:30 p.m.)  We assume that today Richard will be here for a 'normal' workday and I will try to work steadily throughout the day and be productive.We have plans for Saturday so we will work hard until then and then spend some time in Ogden.(hint hint).  We hope that Richard and Kathy really enjoyed there honeymoon and we look forward to hearing about (some of) it.  TIME TO PUT OUT THE GARBAGE