You learn something new every day, or so the old saying goes; and post-Hurricane Ida, I leaned a new thing or two.

I was able to get a ride out of town ahead of the storm; and was with a friend for the duration. Her power lines were knocked down by a falling tree; and she had no when she might have electricity again. She had a small generator; and we used it so that at least we could have the fridge.

It was my first experience with such equipment; and we both quickly learned that those generators gulp gasoline in a hurry! The thing kept running down from fuel exhaustion. A kind neighbor had a larger generator that he let us use after he got electricity back at his home; and he even brought us the gasoline for that generator!

Thank goodness we had a couple of battery-powered fans to use in the bedrooms at night! I must get one after I\’m back home.

The day we started the burn pile, I discovered that I can move a log without either rolling it or carrying it! This log was too big and heavy for me to lift; and one end of it had \”stumps\” of branches sticking out; so that rolling it would have been difficult.

I got the idea to point one end of the log towards the fire; and to lift the end near me. That stood the log on one end; and I pushed it down. Then I lifted the near end of the log again; and pushed it over again. I repeated this until I got the log onto the fire. You learn something new every day! If I might say so, a little ingenuity goes a long way.