TBW Daily Diary

EARTHQUAKE!!! About 1:50 this afternoon I stretched out on the bed to recharge my batteries after working fairly diligently in the store this morning. I had no sooner found a comfortable position than the bed began to shake; the tremor became a jolt and lasted for perhaps thirty seconds. Some things upstairs were rattling like crazy and then there was a loud thud down in the store itself. I thought something huge toppled, but we never found the cause of that noise. Bob was outside on the stoop and felt very little movement but the arborvitae in front of the building did a weird dance. Then neighbor Jaime ran out of her house to confirm the fact that we all had experienced the event. A little later Ernie Kepner stopped by for whatever update we could provide; his chandeliers had more than swayed, he said, and the prisms tinkled. Bottom line: we could find no immediate damage to building or contents . . . Persons in cars or outside generally did not sense anything. But those inside a structure definitely knew that something was happening . . . Rozman Brothers delivered the dryer this morning. The old one was twenty-five, at least, so it was time for replacement. However, a big question looms over us: did we really need a new one just at this moment. When the new machine was plugged in it didn't work, and it was apparent that it hadn't been the old dryer but rather the circuit breaker that may have been the problem. Well, now we are awaiting the electrician . . . Both Tom Leonard and Judy Robinson e-mailed the answer to our trivia question. Both knew that “it started in Scranton” was part of the lyric to “The Pennsylvania Polka.” Tom also accepted our best wishes for a Happy Birthday since he had celebrated his August 7 . . .