We lost power for a little while last night, which is a rare thing for us around here. We live in a community where the power lines are mostly underground, so wind and ice storms and falling trees don't cause major power outages the way they do in some other parts of the area.
But last night some sort of mechanical something happened (that was the technical expanation given by the power company), and our whole neck of the woods went dark. And silent.
The girl in charge and I both stumbled around in the dark, bereft without our DVD players and Facebooks and and good reading lights. Meanwhile the sunny girl calmly went around the house lighting candles.
The husband was in his Scout leader element, wearing a spelunking lamp on his head while he put fresh batteries in a tent lantern.
I found the "read in bed while your husband is sleeping" book light that my sister gave me for Christmas -- and kept on reading.
It was kind of nice.
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