I was up early and the electrical service went out all over town here at 7 this morning and stayed out until noon. When it first went out, I put the coffee percolator and a big pot of water on the gas range (we always start a pot of spaghetti when it’s cold and the power is out), dug out a deck of playing cards, and played a few hands of solitaire while sipping on my coffee. My wife stayed in bed for some extra snoozing time before getting up to a cold house but a fairly warm kitchen. Neither one of us felt like doing any sewing, so I drug out another hand crank that I hadn’t fiddled with for a long time.
It’s my Grandmother’s old hand crank phonograph and records that I used to play with as a small child. Watching the snowflakes coming down with the instrumental sound of “Little Brown Jug” playing on the old wind-up phonograph sure brought back some memories. Add in the smell of home-made spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove along with fresh perked coffee, and it was a very pleasant morning in spite of not having electricity. We only got through about half of the old recordings that included waltzes and foxtrots, and even found a couple of Hawaiian tunes.
We didn’t get any sewing done, but that’s ok. I’m full of spaghetti and thinking a nap may be in order....
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