A pain attack in the middle of the night woke me in the middle of the night. 🙁   Sunday morning, my foot was all red and puffy.  It was not a good day.

Today, I saw Dr Dave and he says it looks like gout.  The X-ray images show that the foot is healing nicely.  But those images won’t show gout or infection.  I’m now taking an antibiotic and an anti-gout med.

It was around 3 PM when the power went out today.  A few moments later the generator kicked in.  We waited for the power to be restored.  Around 4 PM I looked out the window toward the barn and saw this:

This is where the power comes to our house. What is wrong with this picture?

A short had developed and had started a fire on the pole.  A crew of two arrived by 6 PM.  They disconnected us from the main line and restored power to the neighborhood.

By 7 PM the guys had rearranged the power entrance components on the pole and shortly after had us back in business.  It has been an eventful day.