Karla Noyes' Captain's Log Series

I’ll be taking a break from composing these Captain’s Logs. Last week I researched how to write a screen play, then how to write a novel and one of the take-aways was: establish a regular time to write. And since I have to be quiet while Kevin’s sleeping I’ve got this perfect time! Probably 8 hours a weekend. I’m going to use it to finish-up my History of the Blue Wing Inn booklet for publication next fall, complete with photos from other sources. I may need to do some crowd-sourcing for funds to help me get it printed, so you’ll hear from me about that J Work goes well. My office is a zoo but the monkeys are hysterically happy. I admit to becoming a little touchy as my supervisor critiques my presentations. He always has one encouraging thing, like ‘you’re getting better,’ but nit-pics everything else, some of it is useful, like getting rid of ‘ums’ and ‘ahs.’ I can do that. I pride myself on being ‘coachable’ but it turns out I have a bit of a limit (remember, Karla, you love t...

Fire, I hope this isn’t going to be a recurring theme… Last Saturday around 5pm the local utility turned off the electricity to thousands of homes and businesses. For us, they turned it back on Thursday at 2:30pm. Five days without electricity. It wasn’t too much of a hardship, we still had running water, unlike people with wells who need power to run their pumps, and we had natural gas so we had hot showers and hot food. Strange how often I turn to the microwave, and the light switches in the dark. I had my little battery-powered lantern and carried it everywhere with me like Little Red Riding Hood’s basket. We have our battery & solar powered emergency radio, and solar powered battery-pack for charging cell phones. Fortunately, we still had cell phone coverage - our emergency communication device (as long as the cell towers have power) - my only tether to the outside world. We received our best news from one or two Facebook groups that offered links to emergency and information...