Bright Ideas

I was mentally prepared to compose a series of articles about the weather starting with the day fog settled over Ekalaka most of the day. Then came WIND! That’s right, all caps; the wind deserved them. At 4:00 am, Brice got up to unplug the computer, but it was too late. The computer was dead, or in a coma from which we could not awaken it.

When power goes off and quickly comes back five times in a row, problems result. The power company is strong, but it can’t control the wind.

Brice took our computer to the Best Buy where we bought it in Rapid City, after he had someone to watch me in the af...