power cuts-extended version

As we know things have been getting worse…but really last Friday was the monster…it was evidently (at least what I’ve been told) a main line problem…nkhoma was out for over 30 hours…from before I woke up until 10 on Saturday. It was the last day of school…I still wasn’t feeling 100% but went in and couldn’t do any of those last minute things to close up that need power but it was good…the kids had a short day (730-10) with Christmas presents and partys and fun…who needs power? Then iwent home to conserve my energy—I was keeping the veitch boys so mom and dad could go out for their anniversary. No problem because usually the power comes back around 2 when it is out before I get up…used my computer until the battery died…and then the power didn’t come back at 2…or 4…or 6 when they got dropped off…so we played outside until we couldn’t see…went inside to cook dinner over gas…then watched 45 minutes of Despicable Me until the computer they brought over died…then we didn’t know what time it was because all of our electronics were dead (my phone died around 10am). As two of the three I was keeping had already fallen asleep on me I deemed it bed time and right into bed they got. Easy as anything. Breakfast the next morning also over the gas…eggs and tomato and rolls. Then they played outside a bit longer and went home…the power came on at 10—lots of cheering…and then went out again at 11…not nice…but only gone for another hour or so…