SHINE A LITTLE LIGHT
Welcome to December 21st.
The Winter Solstice, which is the
shortest day...and longest night....
of the year.
How appropriate that this is
also National Flashlight Day! None
of us wants to be left in the dark
so a trusty flashlight can provide a
bright spot on this mostly dark day!
We've got a couple of
flashlights sitting around our house.
Two or three of them actually work,
At least they did last time we tried
them. But it's not enough to have
a flashlight. You've also got to
have good batteries.
One of my Flashlights claims
something like a million candle
power. But its rechargeable battery
doesn't recharge very well these
days so, if I'm lucky, I may get about
10 seconds of light from the unit.
We also have one of those
flashlights that you shake back and
forth to create and store an electrical
charge to make it light up. Problem
is by the time you've built up a
usable charge your arm may require
Tommy John surgery!
Ironically the smallest of our
flashlights, the one with led lights,
is the most dependable. And it
doesn't take those huge "D"
batteries to make it work.
Most of us have flashlights
of one sort or another and we've
probably all had at least one
experience in which we've been
really glad to have one nearby.
You can thank Joshua
Lionel Cowen for that. He's the
guy who invented the flashlight
way back in 1898! He probably
needed some extra light to work
on his other invention.....the Lionel
Electric Train!
Hope you see you way through
the day and that all your NEWS is
good!
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