So Rudely Interrupted

Tornadoes have ripped through my part of the country, something we aren't accustomed to having.  Eight days without electricity has put me behind and made me irritable even as I counted my blessings -- my loved ones are ok, my home is ok, and the weather is neither too hot nor too cold.  After the storm, most of those 8 days during which I lived like Grace and Ralph in Precious Jewels, were blue-sky days, the sort of days where one can sit on a front porch hammock with a very dear friend, while birds twittered (tweeted?) in the trees, while we waited for rescue.