North Wind

In fall and spring we get strong north winds when a high pressure system sets up over the Great Basin. It makes for bad chi, or is it positive ions, all around. Yesterday morning I smelled smoke from a grass fire that turned out to be a three-alarmer several miles to the northwest. And then in the evening we were walking out in the field by our house when we heard and saw a loud bang and a bright white flash. When we got back to our house there was no power—evidently it was a transformer exploding. The house was dark—so much for our evening reading.