Lack of energy.

No, not me. Well...maybe a little after yesterday's 90+ weather. Or the overnight "low" of 72 degrees.

Actually, the power went out at the Aerie at around 5:45 AM today. That shut off the AC and the ceiling fan. The steady hum of the AC coming to a halt immediately woke Terry and I up. There was a period of flickering electricity and then all stayed quiet so we got out of bed and dressed for the day--much to the kitties' delight. As soon as we were ready to go downstairs, the power came on again. Total time of outage: approximately 15 minutes. (No call from the alarm company on this one. I think they must call only if power is out for a half hour or so.)

We've no idea why the power went out. There were no storms in the area. There were no strong winds. We haven't had any substantial rain since Memorial Day. We had the problem of kamikaze squirrels taken care of with a new transformer some time ago. About the only thing going on that might create a problem is the widening of one of the gas pipelines. I haven't noticed any digging yet, but they have been felling trees where necessary.

We went about our morning business of feeding the cats, eating breakfast and, since it is Thursday, getting all the garbage bagged and out to the curb. Terry went down to get the mail and then head over to Curves in Mansfield. It was there that she discovered the outage was still on...for the Penelec folks. No power at Curves or the adjacent store or other places along old Route 15. (Including WalMart?) Terry reports there was some digging going on near the Penelec facility just across from where there was some severe damage during the Memorial Day weekend storms. (Mansfield University reports "a power outage will delay classes until noon.")

We're serviced by the Tri-County Rural Cooperative and they are very good at restoring power quickly--unless overwhelmed by unusual circumstances. Penelec not so much. Of course, Tri-County has a lot of dairy farms on their grid and its imperative that they have power for milking and storage of milk. Penelec is more business/residential in its service area. Sometimes it's good to be out in the sticks.