The infamous 7-7-07. Supposed to be lucky for romance. I wonder if it’s anything like Y2K.
This morning decided to answer a few of the old emails that have been sitting there, although mine will just have to sit in the out box. I guess by now you are wondering what has happened to us. Having no communication with the outside world is both peaceful and a little worrisome. So peaceful without the TV too. I hope the phone is fixed soon, but more so other people won’t be concerned about us. And if being without the computer goes on long enough I may even get some real housework done, like scrubbing walls and cabinets and the yardwork. I have been working on my painting. The large one with the herd of horses is coming along pretty well. I'm doing the usual thing of wondering whether it’s worth anything. I started another small one with fall aspens against some pine trees, willows and fall grass.
Today I went out while its cool and used the weed eater.
Joe mowed hay this morning and mowed the front lawn in the afternoon. I moved the hose around to all the plants and shrubs, using the water that is being pumped out of the basement. It got to about 85 for a while. The heat doesn't last too long though until it cools off and is nice again. If there is a breeze it’s very pleasant. It’s warm enough we can sleep with the windows open at night. We did have several perfect days, just nice and cool. I can bring the fan in from the garage if it gets too hot and stuffy in the house. The atmosphere is very hazy-smoky again today. I thought I noticed it a little yesterday. Our big fire is supposed to be out, so it must be another one, or coming in from somewhere else. My flowers in the pots have finally burst into bloom and are looking beautiful. Maybe it was worth all the work. Thunderclouds to the west in the afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon I got most of the back yard trimmed with the weed eater. It’s hard to get the string on this one, and seems to take forever. I hate running out of string. I just plain hate the string. About time to come in for dinner it started to sprinkle. It had been thundering and lightening most of the time I was out there. Jumped in the shower and washed the grit and grass out of my hair. As I was cooking dinner (Reuben sandwiches and crispy fries with salad) I looked out the kitchen window and it looked like smoke was coming up from Irish Canyon, just below where Sandra is camping, although it could have been farther away to the north. It must have started with the lightning. There was a plane flying back and forth over there too so they must know about it. I found out later they immediately had a helicopter or plane fly over the fire and drop water or retardant. It started to get stormier this evening. But still only a sprinkle of rain.
After I got dinner cleaned up I told Joe I was going to drive out beyond the hills where I might be able to get a signal on the cell phone and call Debbie to see how she’s doing because she had surgery yesterday morning. I checked the phone in the yard and danged if there wasn’t a little bit of signal, but I knew it wasn’t enough to hear well. Anyway the dogs and I wanted to take a ride. It started to rain at about the mail box, then got harder as we went along. By the time I went up the Wheeler Hill it began to pour down rain, and was bouncing about a foot up off the road. The splats on the windshield were about the size of my palm and visibility was almost nil. The sound was pretty deafening. I could hardly hear Garrison Keilor on the radio. Then it began to turn to hail and I could envision my car getting full of hail dents, but began to drive out of it. The further toward the pavement that I went it turned to plain rain. I pulled off on the road to the East fork Estates and made my phone calls with rain pouring down. Debbie says she is doing fine. Next Friday they are flying to Seattle and then Denver in the same trip to check out schools for Tayler. I called Jackie to tell her why I wasn’t sending WAOW work on the internet, but had to leave a message there. Called Sheral to tell her our phone was out. And then called Sandy to check on whether anything was being done to fix the phone. She said they would probably start on it Monday. By then it will be five days before they even work on it.
Started back home and it began to really come down again. A nice thing I noticed was that the chip seal on the road sure keeps it from getting muddy and slick even in a downpour although it does splash up and make the vehicle a dirty mess. Got to the gate and had to put on my raincoat, and definitely was glad to have it as I would have been drenched without it. Left the car at the back door and we all jumped under the porch and into the house. Later after the rain stopped and I put the car in the garage. There was a neat red sunset. I hope the rain was enough to put out the fire.
Doc’s got some of his Herefords in his pasture down the creek in back of us since I went by yesterday. I believe there’s enough grazing for them to stay in there about a week or so. It looked like maybe four angus had gotten left behind from yesterday’s roundup. There’s also one in the sagebrush with no way to get water and another one down by Jones next to the creek too.
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