I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

I was just starting to write a post about work tonight, when there was a knock on the front door.

It’s 10:00. AT NIGHT.

NO ONE knocks on our door at 10:00 at night.

It takes a second for it to register what is actually happening.

I think for a second that Adam has knocked something on the floor.

Adam is asleep on the couch as I get up to answer the door.

I discover that it’s our next-door neighbor Jill.

She apologizes, says she saw the TV on and us sitting in the living room.

We don’t have blinds on our windows. We sit in a fish bowl. She clearly could see we were awake.

She very excitedly says, you have to come outside and look at the sky. You can see the Northern Lights. She goes on saying it’s never this far south and as a Mainer has never seen them before.

Adam gets up and we both go outside.

It a clear night, it’s cold, and the sky is beautiful.

Our neighbors from next door, and diagonally across the street are standing in the street.

It takes a few minutes, but you can see streaks of light across the sky.

It was not the beautiful greens and amber that you see in photos but there is definitely light pulsing through the sky.

We stood outside for about 20 minutes until we both were freezing.

Have I mentioned that the heat is still on in our house on the 9th day of May?

It was very moving and beautiful.

I’m going to go back out while Adam is showering for bed.

I’ll keep you posted on what I see.