Lights Out

Hurricane Ike has come and gone however in its aftermath a big part of the area is without electricity. My brother's friend suggested a trip to Louisiana, but we all stayed in town and played cards by the light of a wind up flashlight. Strange enough, life without electronics is refreshing. The humidity is down and Mom is frying up anything and everything on the stove that is thawing from her two freezers. I purchased a head lamp and plan on diving into a couple of big titles that I have been saving up for a rainy day. Right now, my brother and I type on laptops from a nearby Burger King that has a free Wi Fi Lounge with the Saturday night football game playing on a flat screen. When we return to camp, we put up enough battery powered paper lanterns to have a lights show. It could be fun but the lights won't be back on for at least another two weeks. Hopefully the ghosts and whatever that might go bump in the dark will be gone by then too.