This day wasn't anything like I had planned.  It began yesterday actually.  That's when the electricity went out.  Somewhere around noon.  In fact Dorothy rang and rang the bell when she came back from church, and then finally gave up and phoned us.  That's when we found out about the power outage. It was dark all night long so at 7:30 this morning I phoned Leo and told him to stay home.  He was coming to translate a document into French for us.  He would do the work on the computer, but there was no electricity and our battery was dead.  So cancel that job.  The other job on the "to do" list was making a new window screen for one of the front room windows.  But that required the use of the sewing machine, so cancel that job.  We swept and moped the house instead.  That didn't take any electricity at all.  Then late this afternoon, after Doris went home for the day, the electricity came back on and life went back to normal.  We'll get to that "to do" list tomorrow if all goes well.