The reason why...

As you probably noticed if you read this blog on Fridays, I didn't post anything. I thought I ought to tell you why.
First there was a UFO landing in our back yard and these little red (they must not have been from Mars) somethings, came out . . . Oh, wait, that isn't what happened.
It was the huge flood that wiped out almost our entire herd of cattle, and stranded us on a little hill just above the raging waters . . . Wrong story.
The snow storm raged for nine days leaving us with no way to get the mail through . . . Wait, its not winter.
It must have been the Marshmallow Thief who kidnapped me until he could make his escape . . . Oh just forget that.

You want the real story? Okay, here it is.
Friday morning, as I was sitting at the computer a little before 7:00, I started noticing that it was growing darker instead of lighter as it is supposed to do in the mornings. I was going to check the usual blogs, post Part 3 of "Meleah's Western" and then hopefully send a few emails. But as it grew darker, the wind began to blow harder. I left the desk to look at the fast approaching storm and suddenly the storm broke. The rain came down in torrents, the lightning flashed, thunder rumbled and the wind blew! The lights flickered and then went out.
"Sarah," I said, "maybe we should go downstairs and see whats happening."
Down we headed in the dark. Mom and Dad were up, and we turned on the weather radio. But it wasn't working.
"Maybe the battery is dead."
I opened the battery drawer and looked, but couldn't find the right kind. We finally took one from the smoke detector.
We were supposedly under a tornado warning, but the sirens were not going off. Our favorite radio station during storms was only producing static. Meanwhile, the storm continued to rage, though the rain let up and the lightning and thunder moved on, the winds continued to blow. We moved from one window to another watching the treetops lash back and forth, tree limbs crack and fall, trash cans blow into the middle of the streets. We finally got a radio station to come through and found that the storm with tornadoes on the ground was now near Cg., than heading to Sgf.. Jpn was supposedly out of the storm now, but whoever said that, was obviously not in Jpn! If what we were seeing was the little end of the storm, I didn't want to see the rest of it! Finally 13.10 came through the radio! We were having 80 - 90 mile an hour winds here! We found out that most of Jpn was without power and there were trees and power lines down all over! Some schools were canceled, while others were not. We continued to listen to the damage reports on the radio as we ate breakfast. The winds died down and though it was still cloudy, it wasn't raining or storming at all.
Hardly had the storm stopped than Dad began to get phone calls.
"Can you come look at my roof?"
"I need a roofer."
"I have roof damage."
And on and on it went.
Since we had no power, Mom, Sarah and I took a walk around the neighborhood to see the damage and then spent the rest of the morning working in the yard. Thankfully, though we didn't have power, we still had water. We had gotten a generator in the winter just in case we had another ice storm. Dad hooked that up to our fridge and freezer.
The power didn't come back on Friday.
Saturday, was spent, doing a little shopping, more yard work, wishing the power would come one, reading, and not much else. We were glad we have a gas grill so we could cook suppers. Saturday evening I spent down at the Cov.s. They got power that night.
Sunday morning, and still no power. We all managed to get ready for Church and arrive in time to set things up. Home that afternoon with no power. It was also cloudy, so it was harder to do things in the dim light. We took a walk and ended up at the Cov.s, watching them get a tree that had been uprooted in the storm, down. We managed to eat our usual Sunday night meal and do our usual things.
On Monday we did some laundry. We hooked up the washer to the generator and washed a load of clothes. Then we dried some at J & M's and the rest at the Cov.'s. We were rather restless with not much we could do. We took another walk.
This morning, about 7:45, Mom calls upstairs to say that the electric company is down the alley! About 8:00 the power came back on! Hurray!

And that my friends, is the real reason for me not posting on Friday. I hope to get back on track this Friday.