Little Blessings

I just experienced a nice little blessing... one of those little things that just gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling deep down.

During out dinner, around 8:30 pm, the electricity went out. So Richard, being the dear Richard that he is, trotted out to spend some quality time with the generator. Which meant that I didn't have to go start the generator!

At about 9:30pm, as me and Richard were sitting there thinking, "Hmmm... don't know if I'll be able to stay up until 10:30 to turn off the generator", we agreed that whoever was still awake at that time would go and turn it off. So I was sitting here trying to stay awake until 10:30 to turn off the generator, so that Richard wouldn't have to.

About 10 minutes later, the generator shut off, and the lights came back on - the city electricity was back, and one of the nieghbors had already noticed and gone down to turn off the generator. So now, I can go straight to bed, without having to run down to the generator shed! Like I said, little blessings that just make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It's these little bits of negotiating the sharing of the chores, and taking care of each other that makes living in a community like this so much of a blessing.

And now that I don't have to turn off the generator, I'm going to get my pajamas on, snuggle under my sheet and go to sleep! I wonder if Zane is going to join me tonight... (um, er, Zane is my cat, just in case any of you are wondering who Zane is!!)