power cuts

I’m sure I’ve written of these before but this week they have come back to their regular frequency. The past couple of weeks we have had power cuts but not the scheduled ones and usually not for too long. The supposed schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 6 to 8 in the evening…not conducive for cooking for dinner but it was possible to be ready for it and to know that it was coming. Well except for the fact that we never did get used to it and always seemed to plan a meal that involved baking in the oven for those days but that was our fault so ok. And then when we would prepare ahead of time and either get it done early or plan the stirfry meal that can be done on the gas burner the power wouldn’t go out. Murphy’s law at it finest. Last week the power went out maybe once (that I recall being annoying)…of course we’d invited all the guesthouse people to ours for dinner and then our gas tank ran out of gas…but we had a charcoal brazier that we could finish up on…just took a little longer to finish. This week went back to the scheduled days but turned out to be from 530 to close to 9…once you’ve cooked and eaten it is fine but sitting in the dark just makes you tired so we often head to bed pretty soon after the power comes on…but I’m pretty sure we need our sleep so I’m not too worried about it.