Out on Halloween
Power-outage day five and the hot spot connection isn’t working well, fortunately, we have a generator so life’s essential comforts are met. It started late Sunday evening, after a day of soaking rain when the wind began to blow and many trees toppled over.
Power outages are necessary because without them we would not know the volume of silence in our natural world. The manmade electromagnetic net was down for over 400,000 households and although our daily lives, schedules, and our habits were interrupted, for a brief moment, the countryside was emanating peace. Eventually, I had to start the generator and disturb our reprive.
Update: The internet was just restored. I drove by CMP’s trucks when taking my son to school this morning, so, it looks like power will be restored soon.
Note: Halloween is always peaceful and the power-outage made it even more so. When coming home Halloween evening, we drove along the quaint Maple street of downtown Cornish. To our surprise, the streets were packed with kids Trick or Treating. This sight was a welcomed one especially for me. For the past several years, trick or treating has been done during the day and the streets vacant at night. Seeing the streets abandoned during Halloween was a most frightening spectacle. Due to our location, in 17 years, one trick or treater has come to this house.
I saw an unusual reference to Halloween on Halloween day on a placard posted by the side of the road in the entrance of a local church. The sign read: Trunk or Treat. Neither my wife nor I correctly guessed why the trunk replaced treat. It turns out, the church group met at the church carrying treats in their trucks and the kids would go from car to car collecting treats. I understand why trick was dropped from treat — not many kids or possibly adults not understanding what a good-hearted trick is — but doesn’t trick or trunk make more sense? Trunk or treat is silly and sounds more like the title to a Steven King novel.
