[Magdalen] Candles Galore.

[Kate Conant]

Wow!  Your Asplundh is worse than our Asplundh!

We only had to deal with several weeks of their getting their trucks stuck
in the mud on our right-of-way and cutting down trees and only cleaning up
after themselves after repeatedly phone calls.

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> A local tree trimming crew (Asplundh), working for the power company
> PPL= Pennsylvania Power & Light, managed to prune away the main
> electrical lines supplying about 500 homes here in our development.
> Thus, from 5 PM to 12:30 AM we were without power.  I suspect  that
> some of those tree trimmers lost their jobs over that error.
>
> In any case, this outage, or as Wilfred says, "outrage," reminds us
> how very dependent we are on electric power.  We bedecked the house  in
> candles so that it looked like Christmas Eve, or even the set for a
> romantic
> liaison on a soap opera, but there was still no computer, television,  and
> reading for the evening.
>
> The dogs staggered about looking at the candles with a sort of "what  the
> hell" look.  They knew something was wrong, but not quite what  was
> wrong.
>
> It was also a very humid, hot evening, quite atypical for us in the
> mountains,
> and, of course, no air conditioning.  We are really spoiled.   Although I
> got
> a fair night's sleep after the power came back, I'm still wandering  about
> a little disoriented this morning.  I find that as I get into my  senior
> years,
> I do not do well in the dark or the dim light.  In fact, it's a rather
> dangerous
> time for oldsters, and I pretty much stayed put all evening.  The  candles
> did help.  Candlemas has nothing on us.
>
>
> David Strang.
>