Spring Gremlins

The gremlins are out in force.

Last night around midnight, the power went out for no obvious reason--no storm, no wind, no transformer going BOOM, just abruptly dark.

This morning we went to rent a power washer. The two they had on site wouldn't start, although the employees said the machines had worked last week. The boss went and got a third machine, which did start.

Got the washer home and onto the back deck, turned the hose on, whereupon the hose connection at the nozzle came apart in an obviously irreparable way.

"Okay," I mutter, "we have a hose on the side of the house too, I'll go and get that"--but as I do, the handle of the screen door comes off in my hand.

Despite this, we've persevered and the deck is getting cleaned. I'm typing while waiting for Diana to make a gasoline run. And you can be sure I'll double check to see that it actually posted.

Later: Saturday night we lost power again, for about two and a half hours. But at least we got a nice, unambiguous boom as a transformer blew.