Sunday September 9 2007

View of Drilling Rig from House Looking Across the Creek

From the Creek


Looking Toward Canyon

Artsy Sunset Rig

Not much news. Today nothing got done that I had planned. But that's o.k. I went through more backed up emails and am gradually getting them down to being more manageable. Some of the regular chores got done and some didn't. Since our SCAG meeting yesterday I decided to redo the roster which had a couple of small mistakes. That will be proof read by the members by email tomorrow and they can print out their own copies - I won't have to do a mailing.

Betty called and we have the plan for her ETA - she and Amigo will get here about noon on Wednesday and stay a week. I'm really looking forward to her visit. We will do some sightseeing, more or less depending on how we feel at the time. I also talked to Mary Carolyn, and to Jo about the conference and arts center. Called Iris but she wasn't home.

This evening I put on my down coat and hood and took the ATV and the dogs and circled around the water well drilling rig. When I got up close I could see the boxy trailer thing is a very large generator. There is no camper trailer there. You could see that water had run on the ground. I don't know if they could have already "struck" water or what. Joe thought it would take at least three days, and longer if they went down to second water or deeper. There was no one there when I went over, so maybe they took Sunday off. I didn't hear the rig running today - they had turned it off by about 2 or 3 a.m. last night. Raven got muddy and had to be washed off, but Sparky didn't get into the mud. They had a good run.

The weather report is still saying that we are supposed to get some snow tonight, but not much clouds around this evening. The moisture would be welcome. It did cool off though, and I suppose if it gets to the predicted 29 it will be about the end of my flower pots.

Buckshot is coming in the morning and the septic tank drainfield job should be mostly done later in the day. Joe will probably need to get more gravel. I'll need to fix them some lunch. More about that tomorrow.