A Blessing
Had a really annoying day on the water yesterday. Caught a ton of fish but it rained on me seven times. Forecast said no rain. None. Then seven storm bursts formed right in front of my eyes over the course of eight hours on the water. Spent a few under trees near the shore. But the heavier ones I had to use the poncho AND hunker down under trees. Still got wet. So very obnoxious. I was sort of pissed off driving back home. But then I realized it may have just been the price I pay for good luck (or a blessing from God? Not sure). So my power went out Tuesday morning. I was going to light my oven and heat up my lunch but then remembered that the ignitor is electric, so it wouldn't work. Decided to light stove instead (easier) with a grill lighter. Accidentally left the oven on (but not really on because power was out). Just before lunch, I was working on installing a light switch for my back porch since there is a box but no switch, just a cover. Currently, the light comes on during dark conditions whenever the main indoor light is turned on. I want more control so I figured I'd put a switch in and flip the breaker off just in case power came back on during the work. Power didn't come back on. But I left the breaker off when I went to work later that day. And I'm glad I did. Because when I got home Wednesday night, power was back on. But not to my stove because I shut the breaker off. I turned the breaker back on and the oven came on. I didn't realize I left it on. So, essentially, if I hadn't have shut that breaker off (or had turned it back on), the oven would have come on at noon on Thursday. I got home around 9PM. That's nine hours of a running over, with stuff inside. Not certain, but this possible could have started a fire and burned my entire house down. I've been thinking about this all night and all morning. It's impossible to explain how lucky I am everything fell into place just this way. Kudos to me for nothing. I was an idiot that didn't turn the dial back off the oven. And I didn't intentionally leave off the breaker because of the oven. I just left it off because I was working on that switch. I could have flipped it back on and then off when I worked on it next time (probably in a few days, as I don't like doing house chores during my days off). But dumb luck.....I left it off. And that may have saved my home and everything I own. It's easy to mad at myself for putting myself in the position where this almost happened but I'm going to choose to be thankful to God/the universe/whatever force you believe in that saved my butt. I'll take getting rained on every day for a month if it's the price I have to pay to save everything. My home could be re-built and I can buy new "stuff". It's the irreplaceable things that I would be devastated to lose. Some might say I should buy a lotto ticket. I say I should just take this a sign that I'm being looked out for.