alabamaalan
<font color=green>Alan, you can run, but you can't
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We had a few storms last night and although they weren't very bad, the power kept blinking off and on.
Finally, it went off for over an hour.
We had just gotten our youngest daughter to bed so it wasn't a problem, but my 6 year old girl was a little nervous.
While Mrs. AA was doing some other things in the house, my princess and I went out on the back patio. It is covered with a tin roof and I love hearing the rain on it.
The sky had that glow that you often get in thunderstorms but the lightning was the "heat lightning" type that rolls across the sky in bright billowy flashes.
There is an empty field behind my house and the lightning bugs were very active. We could watch them in our yard, throughout the field, and near the bushes of the houses across the field.
When we went inside, Mrs. AA put her to bed and read a few chapters of the Chronicles of Narnia which they just started to re-read earlier in the week.
Since Mrs. AlabamaAlan is blind and the book is in braille, it was no different from any other nightly bedtime story. They normally read with the lights off anyway.
As they read, I just moved to another part of the house and listened.
It was peaceful.
There was no steady whir of the ceiling fans, no hum of appliances or the computer. Just the deafening tick of a cuckoo clock.
I'm very thankful for all that I have and would definitely miss all those bright and noisy things that weren't working, but for a few moments it was just the family in the house with no other distractions and it felt good.
Finally, it went off for over an hour.
We had just gotten our youngest daughter to bed so it wasn't a problem, but my 6 year old girl was a little nervous.
While Mrs. AA was doing some other things in the house, my princess and I went out on the back patio. It is covered with a tin roof and I love hearing the rain on it.
The sky had that glow that you often get in thunderstorms but the lightning was the "heat lightning" type that rolls across the sky in bright billowy flashes.
There is an empty field behind my house and the lightning bugs were very active. We could watch them in our yard, throughout the field, and near the bushes of the houses across the field.
When we went inside, Mrs. AA put her to bed and read a few chapters of the Chronicles of Narnia which they just started to re-read earlier in the week.
Since Mrs. AlabamaAlan is blind and the book is in braille, it was no different from any other nightly bedtime story. They normally read with the lights off anyway.
As they read, I just moved to another part of the house and listened.
It was peaceful.
There was no steady whir of the ceiling fans, no hum of appliances or the computer. Just the deafening tick of a cuckoo clock.
I'm very thankful for all that I have and would definitely miss all those bright and noisy things that weren't working, but for a few moments it was just the family in the house with no other distractions and it felt good.
