Power Lines

When I come home from work I know if the power was out for a few minutes because the oven clock will be blinking. I’m not quite sure how to change the clock back to the correct time, but after a few minutes I figure it out. And then, a few weeks later, I come home and it is blinking again. When the power goes out and I am home, the huge generator in our yard kicks in. It is the size of a tractor and it sounds like one too. I’m not sure why it is so big, or what it runs on, but men come and check on it from time to time. The gardener comes every so often to tend the yard, I’m sure the mechanics run in to her – the vines are now climbing all over our generator. I wonder if they argue about what is more important, access to the generator or the wild grapes.