I’ve been sitting here for a while. . . ‘frame’. Frame.
Let me frame a moment of my morning; (gosh, that’s a stretch.) That moment is me, sitting on a huge, stuffed chair I was lent because I have no couch right now. We had no power: the electricity or hydro, as we call it in Canada, was out.
(Background to framing the moment): I had woke up around 5:45 and realized the power was out: the fan was not blowing a breeze through the bedroom. The atmosphere was dense and dark. I went back to sleep hoping it would be back on when I woke up again. It was not.
We are having a heat wave as I’m sure most of you are, too. This is brutal. Hot and humid right through the night. I am so fortunate to have central air conditioning, I don’t take it for granted because I have lived without it. Nowadays, its necessary.
Yesterday I did a lot of TV viewing. The rain completely missed us so I went out and watered everything. HOLY MOLY! It’s hot! I thanked God when I went back in to my cool house, my big stuffed chair and TV. OMG: I’m so happy to be retired and not have to go to work! That’s when we forget how great it is to have electricity.
Every morning, when I get up, I turn on my computer and my coffee-maker. I go to the bathroom, splash cold water on my face, get my coffee and head to my computer.
Not this morning.
I went and sat on my big chair and stared at the black TV. I need coffee. Please come on. What will I do if it doesn’t come on? I need coffee. It’s 7:30 a.m. and its already hot out. What do I do now? What am I going to do today? I need coffee.
That’s what I repeated, over and over, until that lovely hum and click of my answering machine told me it was on. YAY!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “frame.” Use it as a noun or a verb or any way you like.
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I’m glad you didn’t have to go much longer without electricity! Makes me wonder what people did before there was any such thing. We don’t have central AC though it’s on our list. Probably will wonder some day how we did without it. We have three window air conditioners and a box fan that points toward the kitchen by day and the bathroom by night. Not doing any cooking when the high is 95. Stay cool!
We had very hot summer days in April and May. Our monsoon season usually starts in the first week of June but this time it started one month Late. Changes !! I liked your post 🙂
We seldom lose power here but I’ve lived in a place where the power would go out if a bird lit on the line! Not so much fun. So glad yours is up and running again. ~Elle