No Southern Hospitality

My friend Shannon came back from Morehead with me to spend the night at our house. My plan was to show her as much southern hospitality as she showed me last month. Best laid plans.

Our power went out at 5:30 this morning. Not that I knew it as I was passed out hard from my grueling week. When I finally woke up at 8:00 Russ alerted me to the news that a car had taken out something major, but the power was scheduled to be back on at 8:30 AM

I know better than to believe those predictions so I asked Shannon if she would like to go out to breakfast. She alerted me that her flight was now delayed an hour so we had all the time in the world.

Russ suggested we go to Press for breakfast and we could show Shannon his office and water his plants. It was a good plan. I suggested we should unlock a door. Russ thought it was a suggestion.

Off we went to a yummy breakfast since Press has lots of gluten free options. We toured Shannon around the ball park, and Russ’ office, downtown and Duke on our way home. We arrived home to no power and a notice that it was going to be 5:30 PM for power.

Just as we pulled up to the garage door Russ realized he had not brought a key and we left no door unlocked. Since we usually go in the house through the garage we were locked out since the garage door opener needs power.

We needed to get into the house to get Shannon’s bags and get her to the airport. I said no problem, I will get the hidden key. Well, the hidden key was not exactly in it’s normal place. I called Carter to see if she had moved it. No and she suggested going in the window she used to use in high school when she snuck back in. Then she remembered that she locked that window when she no longer needed to sneak in the house.

Russ called a lock smith while Shannon and I searched for the key. I kept saying I knew it was there, but as we pulled more and more dead leaves up we did not find it. After about a 20 minute search we did find the key and got in the house. Thankfully it was still in plenty of time to get Shannon to the airport.

She made her flight and went home to 109°temps. At least I can say we gave her cooler weather. On my way home from the airport Russ told me it was now going to be 8:30 PM for the power. I stopped and got ice for the freezers and refrigerator.

We went out to dinner so as not to need to open any appliance. While we were out we got the notice that the power came back on at 6:30PM. Thank goodness I was not having a guest tonight. There is no southern hospitality without air conditioning in the summer.