The Neighbors
Dinner went pretty well but I had been busy all day long on Wednesday. So relaxing this morning, having a little quiet time. Last night I forgot to pay Sheral for the milk and fly spray she bought for me. I just space things out when anything else is going on. In the morning I got the new cordless phone hooked up with the new adapter, and it seems to be fine now. I had to take out the drawers and some of the slide file boxes in the cabinets to reach in the back and thread the wires through. Joe's out mowing another patch. Then he will rake and bale yesterday's cutting. He came in and wanted lunch early so he could get back to work. Sparky has been going out and running alongside the tractor every day. Raven likes to stay in the house because she hates the horseflies.
We are missing getting the online weather report I've been printing out for Joe for some time. Don't know if we might get some rain or not. It's quite hazy with smoke, and also quite a bit of clouds, a hazy bright day so far and not too hot.
Yesterday the UPS lady brought a book I ordered from Amazon.com. I thought I should read Walden by Thoreau although I have another book of it and have read that years ago.
Friday Afternoon: Got lunch over with. Joe went out to run the baler and pick up the bales with the bale wagon until it got too stormy to be out any longer. About one p.m. the power went out - one of those sudden emphatic cut offs and you know it's not coming back on for a while. Sheral called to make sure we, or I, didn't want to go in to the rodeo with them, and I said no. It was looking really stormy by then. Judy called me and said how crowded Pinedale was with people for Rendezvous weekend and packing the street looking at the booths. I was going to ride the ATV out to get the mail, but decided to wait. The wind must have been blowing 40 or 50 mph, and there was rain off and on most of the night. We couldn't visit long because the phone goes to battery when the power goes off. We pumped four buckets of water with the hand pump and carried them in the house so we could flush and wash up. Well by dinner time the power still hadn't come on. Lots of thunder and lightning. The choice was sandwiches, cereal or something cold. So I made us a version of a butter bean salad I like with things I had available….. the beans, some tomatoes, chunks of green pepper, a can of artichoke hearts, sliced onions, and marinated it all in some fat free Italian Dressing and seasonings. Had it with leftover green salad from last night and bunillos. It was fast and easy. I tried out my wind up radio to see if we could hear any news of what was going on, but nothing out of the ordinary, i.e. no terrorist attacks, no end of the world. I sat and read, and by the time I was getting ready to go to bed, still no electricity. I took some of those ice packs out of the freezer and put next to the most perishable things in the fridge. The freezer seemed to be doing o.k. so far. I lay down and continued to read Walden with my battery lantern. Every time I woke up in the night the wind was howling and still no power. It started to die down toward morning and when I let the dogs out about 3 a.m. I could see the stars.
Bobbi Watching Joe Park the MF
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