No Electricity..Disaster Averted.

Today was another day of no electricity.  They shut it off at 8am just as I was finishing up a batch of rice pudding on the stove.

The loss of electricity is all part of getting electricity for the new grain storing system.  It’s a necessary evil.

For someone whose job depends on computers, having no electricity is challenging.  I spent the day getting a few odd jobs done.  I organized some fabric.  I paid bills.  I did a little tidying around the house.  I took the new quilt batting roll upstairs and tidied up there.  I loaded a backing for this quilt onto the frame.

I was a busy girl…but bored.  I finally caved in and went to town and did some errands.  I was to the bank and of course, to my local thrift stores.  I bought a bag of sewing junk for $2 and got a bunch of pins, velcro and some lace…I was happy with the find.  I found some cotton sheets for charity quilt backs too.

I came home about two hours later to a house FILLED with smoke and all of the smoke alarms in the house were wildly beeping.

Remember that rice pudding I made.  I never turned off the burner…the electricity went out but I never turned off the burner and I had left the pudding to cool on the burner.

I don’t know how soon the electricity came on after I left.  I just know that I came home at a good time.  There was no fire…just smoke and thankfully I had left Ruby outside when I left.

All is well.  The house still smells a little smokey but we are all safe and that’s all that matters.