September 18 – “A little surprise”

I walked two miles with Chris.  Then she did stairs.  I did not.  Had to let her catch up since she missed water aerobics the day before.  That makes sense, doesn’t it?

 

We tried to saw down that big broken tree limb yesterday.  We discovered a problem.  The blade on the telescoping pole saw was too dull to even begin a cut.  Chris found a new one available at Home Depot.  Put it on the list.  Actually, to jump ahead a bit, we did make it over to Home Depot.  Took us a while, but we finally found the replacement blades.  Interestingly, however, there didn’t appear to be any actual telescoping poles.  Good thing we don’t really need a new one of those.  Now we just wait until Kel’s crew gets here after the workday at Seaside.  We’ll have a workday and Nana’s to get that branch down before storm pickup day on Sunday. 

 

We received a little surprise around 1:00.  All of a sudden the power went out.  No warning of any kind.  Just dead.  I went outside to see if I could tell what was happening, and I was met by no less than six of those huge trucks with the arms that lift a human higher into the air than anyone should be without a parachute.  At least three of them were from a tree-trimming company not even based in Galveston.  I chatted briefly with one of the workers.  Yes, they turned off the power to work on the downed lines back behind our house.  They were also going to trim back the trees around the lines.  That’s a really good thing there.  They needed it badly.  But a head’s up on the no power thing would have been nice.  We watched them work for a long time.  It was cooler on the back porch than inside the house.  Noisier out there, though.  We finally came back inside when Josh called for his Friday chat. 

 

Sadly, the repair work didn’t do anything to reconnect our internet or WiFi or house phone or cable.  That meant another night of watching the Astros on my phone.  Exciting game, too.  Astros won on a tenth inning walk-off hit-by-pitch.  Ouch.

 

John 15:4 says, “Remain in me, as I also remain in you.  No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine.  Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

 

Father, please protect those linemen as they go about their work repairing and trimming around the Island.  Amen.