took this picture of the sky when I got home and was planning to write about the sad fact that it is getting dark earlier every day…

who knew that I’d be writing about electricity instead… as I was making my supper I heard a loud noise on the deck… looked out to see the electrical wires had pulled away from the house… were still attached, but hanging at least a foot lower than before…

and about six blue jays flying off the wire… think they must have been the last straw to pull the wire away…

only caught this one … very odd to see so many of them in one place…

power was still on, but I decided to call the Hydro emergency number to see if someone needed to come and check the situation out… 

I always dislike calling emergency numbers because there are likely real emergencies they need to be dealing with, not my little problems…

anyway, they did think it was an emergency and a truck arrived about two hours later…

it was still light when they arrived just after nine… he said I’d need an electrician to fix the problem, but that he would turn off the power for a few minutes, remove the piece of vinyl, tape up some wiring, and turn the power back on until I could get the electrician to come, likely tomorrow… because Hydro can’t fix the electricity, just turn it on or off, sigh…

it was getting darker as he worked and my young electrician friend, who lives close by, said he would come over to see what had to be done… he couldn’t do anything until later tomorrow as he didn’t have his tools with him…

he arrived and once he saw what the problem was, felt he could do a fix tonight… we searched in the garage and found a small piece of 2×4 and he went home and got a drill and some longer screws… I could only find 3 inch ones in the garage… although I bet there are some out there somewhere… George had just about anything you could need in that garage… it is one place I haven’t been able to go through and clean out since his death…

Lane, the very nice Hydro man, did what he had to do and my friend found screws and was able to connect the mast (maybe?) back up and then the Hydro fellow hooked the lines up and turned the power on… by then it was pitch dark… 

the whole process only took about an hour…

events like this remind me that I am lucky to have people to call on but that my being a little old widow lady might have provided me with some additional power to get a bit of extra help, lol…

so, I guess I did talk about the dark, after all…