It was supposed to be a relatively lazy day where we watched a couple of movies, worked on our taxes, and cut hair. The only thing on my calendar for today was a choir practice. And then our power went wonky.
The lights were still on in the kitchen and the dryer and boiler were still running, but our bedroom light started growing dimmer, the water to the washer went down to a trickle, and the microwave stopped microwaving. We called our power company to report an outage and got a call back (a first for me). At the power company's request--and because we were still getting power to our garage, cabin, and several rooms in the house--we called in the electrician who we had used last year to change our circuit box (Brandon Huffer--whom I highly recommend) rather than take the chance with the $100 fee the power company would charge if the problem was on our end.
It was on the power company's end. One of the "legs" coming from the street had burned out (due to water getting into the connector and freezing). They replaced it and were quite polite (Janelle even recognized one as a regular through her checkout line). We were without power for about four hours, and I missed my choir practice.
We still got several things done: aside from most of our window lights, our Christmas decorations are now stored back in our garage; we watched Suicide Squad (which had a hard-to-follow plot, a too-gansta Joker, yet a mesmerizing charm); Trevor and I got to play a couple games of Starcraft with Jon; and Janelle cut the boys' and my hair. It wasn't what we were expecting, but it wasn't a bad day.
The lights were still on in the kitchen and the dryer and boiler were still running, but our bedroom light started growing dimmer, the water to the washer went down to a trickle, and the microwave stopped microwaving. We called our power company to report an outage and got a call back (a first for me). At the power company's request--and because we were still getting power to our garage, cabin, and several rooms in the house--we called in the electrician who we had used last year to change our circuit box (Brandon Huffer--whom I highly recommend) rather than take the chance with the $100 fee the power company would charge if the problem was on our end.
It was on the power company's end. One of the "legs" coming from the street had burned out (due to water getting into the connector and freezing). They replaced it and were quite polite (Janelle even recognized one as a regular through her checkout line). We were without power for about four hours, and I missed my choir practice.
We still got several things done: aside from most of our window lights, our Christmas decorations are now stored back in our garage; we watched Suicide Squad (which had a hard-to-follow plot, a too-gansta Joker, yet a mesmerizing charm); Trevor and I got to play a couple games of Starcraft with Jon; and Janelle cut the boys' and my hair. It wasn't what we were expecting, but it wasn't a bad day.
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