A Chilly Night

Last night I got home from being out with my son and threw a quick dinner in the oven. I was very hungry to the point of having the shakes. While dinner heated up I got all the furkids out of their condos and let them out to rampage and terrorize the house and cats. While the condos were unoccupied I clean the liter boxes and shook out the towels and blankets. Once done I pulled dinner from the oven, turned on the tv and sat down to eat
BOOM!......out go the lights
Electricity back on for maybe 2 seconds........
BOOM!.......out go the lights a second time.......
Electricity back on for 10 seconds.......
BOOM!.......out go the lights for a third time....
I sat in complete darkness and nothing.....I felt my way over to where the candles were a lit one....then two.....then three...... I made my way around the house turning off the heat and light switches. I had had a major chill going so had cranked the heat up from 68 to 75. Thank goodness it had hit the 75 degree mark. I sat back down at the table and ate my dinner by candle light. It was black as black outside. The entire neighborhood was down. Outside I could hear sirens wailing away.....so many......it sounded as if the the whole city had gone to hell. Progress trucks rumbled through the neighborhood looking for the trouble. Their headlights and search lights illuminated the front room as they passed. Finished with dinner I carried my dishes and candle to the kitchen to clean up. By 9:30 I guessed that the way the trucks were driving around, that it would be a while before the power was back up. I grabbed the kids and tucked them all back in bed and gave them extra blankets and towels and pulled down the front of the cage covers to help retain their heat. I figured it was better for them to be safe and warm in the cages than running around. By 10 PM, There was really nothing to do, and too dark to read a book, so I myself grabbed an extra comforter, crawled into bed and drifted off to sleep.

The power stayed off until 2 AM. I woke up to the beeping of the phones and the hallway light coming on. I crawled out of bed to a very cold house. I quickly set the alarm clock and turned the heat on......brrrrrrr....thermostat read 57. I checked on all the kids......pig piled under the blankets and toasty warm. Tauvi was snuggled in the two sweaters I had given her.
This time.....
click goes the light switch........out go the lights.....and me......back to bed