The night the lights went out in Sutton........

Tuesday night we were all late getting into bed - Fred returned home about 10:45 PM from working his shift at the Boston Temple and Dan and I were watching a "Little House on the Prairie" movie. At 11:00 PM all of us were either in bed or getting ready for bed. While changing into my pajamas there was a loud crack of thunder and suddenly, darkness! Believe me, it's really interesting to put your pajamas on in the dark without any tags to identify the front from the back. Next there is a knock on the bedroom door. Dan does not want to be alone in his room at the other end of the house, can he join us in bed? Sure, jump in! Fred pulled his LL Bean headlight out of the nightstand drawer (boy those 3 high intensity LED lamps sure are bright) and set his phone alarm to wake him in the morning. I grab a flashlight and head downstairs to the corded phone to call the electric company to report the outage.

After I returned to the bedroom, Fred turned out the runway light and we all tried to settle down to sleep. We got a little silly, not having enough room to move, and laughing about who knows what. Finally, I realized none of us were going to get to sleep like that so Dan and I went to his room so Fred could get some much needed sleep. I tucked Dan in and then used the blanket at the foot of his bed as my pillow. I stayed with him for about 10 minutes (no he was not asleep yet) then returned to my own bed.

About 1:30 AM the light on Fred's nightstand comes on and the clocks come back to life. Hooray, power again! I lay there waiting for Fred to reach over and turn off his light - he's sound asleep. Finally, I nudged him to tell him the lights were on so he woke up, turned off the light and went back to sleep.

My friend, "LL", closes her blog posts with three things she's thankful for. Here's mine today:

1. Clocks that reset themselves automatically after a power outage
2. Flashlights by the bed
3. Electricity