awaiting Earth Hour

Our social lives have been going in high gear lately, and that's not about to stop. Early next week we hit the road with two friends on a road trip to Ontario to attend my sister's wedding. She's not Bridezilla and it seems like it's going to be one of those 'fun' weddings as opposed to one of those 'obligatory' weddings where nobody is comfortable but everyone has to go through the motions. I think I will time her ceremony to see if it beats mine for length - I'll have to check again but I'm pretty sure our Vegas wedding lasted almost exactly five minutes.

As I type, Mark is running around the house making Arlo the dog bark and growl. Earth Hour is quickly approaching so I'll have to get this posted sooner rather than later so I can turn the computer off.

Earth Hour really should have happened on Thursday, for our own personal convenience. Around 2:30 in the afternoon on Thursday we suddenly lost our power. The sky was blue and there was no wind blowing, so we really couldn't guess why it was gone. Mark made a quick call to his work to let them know that he was going to be out of commission for a bit, and we got on with our day sans electricity.

One hour passed, then two, then four. Still no power.

Later in the evening, as the sky grew dark, we broke out the flashlights. Just as the last glimmer of sunlight left the horizon, the power finally returned. The next evening we were at a friend's house and the power failure was briefly the topic of conversation. It was out in a large area - possibly our entire county - and we all joked that someone had unplugged the one and only extension cord that ran to Halifax and supplied power to the western part of the province. We are small town folk now, but we are not afraid to admit it!

Well, Earth Hour approaches. I think we'll go take the dogs for a walk.