6 March …
I do enjoy feedback … especially when it makes me look smart (emphasis in the following is theirs).
“Enjoying this week’s blog and all your snow.
“We here, in Florida, are experiencing it with our sunshine and heat. A week ago, it was in the mid 80’s for the entire week, with a high of 89. I was rereading some of your 2015 blogs and came across the following….
“Still on a political note … a poll last week showed that Trump would beat any Democrat in next year’s election. A character diagnosis in the book I recently read cited a character as having “narcissistic personality disorder” with “pathological egotism”. Electing Trump might well be the best thing that could happen. He would disgrace the GOP and the country almost immediately making the US the laughing stock of the world and destroying any influence we have in world affairs. That could be good because before any improving change can occur, it most often must be preceded by collapse. A door needs to close before the new door can open. Bring in the clowns …
“You sure were prophetic. He tells us that Climate Change is ‘hog wash’ ”.
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Thursday the 28th dawned icy and sunny. Kamille’s truck was having problems. There had been a fatality on I-5 north of Yreka due to ice. Trees had fallen across several roadways. Power lines were down and there were power outages all over southwestern Oregon and Siskiyou County.
February went out like a lion.
There has been a lot of snow on the Mountain.
The ski lifts at the ski park were having trouble…
and wind took its toll.
Still, the snow pack is better than it has been for a few years and most of the precipitation is soaking in and replenishing the water table rather than running off, so drought will be less of a problem … at least we hope so.
March is coming in with rain and snow. Not quite full lion behavior.
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Did you happen to notice in last week’s pictures the two birches out front? The broken one is upright under the heavy snow, but the bendable one is touching the ground. The bent one is fine now that the melt has reached it, but the contrast was interesting.
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Mark, Kamille, and Paul left tuesday early evening (after school and Kamille’s work time) for three days in Sacramento. Kamille will be attending an Eastern Star something. Mark and Paul will be doing the tourist thing. They will be visiting Olde Towne, the Railroad Museum, the Capitol Building, the Governor’s Mansion, Sutter sites, and who knows what else they have on their list. Paul was able to take a school work packet with him so he won’t be missing any school work.
It is going to seem strange around here. Tyler pretty much takes care of himself so I’ll be sleeping in an extra hour, trying to get my desk area under control, noshing, and reading … reading … reading.
Kamille and Paul are due home late Friday. Mark won’t get home until Sunday. He has to go back east to officiate at a funeral. He was specifically requested by the widow, a very close friend.
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Water rights are still a problem in the wild west.
Interference by neighbors in the water flow across our property (the flow from which George and I got our power for all those years) has put our electricity in jeopardy. That interference, and lack of co-operation from another neighbor, will also be depriving at least five or six landowners downstream of water.
As a result of the probable loss of the water flow, we are in the process of switching to solar and wind for our power.
We have an array of solar cells ready to install as soon as weather permits and have begun looking into wind generators. The meadow to the south-southwest of the house is an excellent place for both of those sources. George considered both solar and wind but hadn’t gone that route forty plus years ago because the technology wasn’t really ready and costs were soooo high. Now technology has advanced and costs are reasonable.
Stay tuned.
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Now for a Poor Me …
Yesterday morning, as I was making my bed, I reached across to pull up the comforter, heard (and felt) a double pop, and had a SHARP pain in the left hip area. My first thought was a dislocated and relocated hip joint. Then I realized it wasn’t my hip that hurt, but the area at the base of my tuchus where my upper thigh meets my bootie. Strange.
I looked up “ischial tuberosity pain” and discovered I probably tore one of the hamstrings (there are three) which attaches to the left tuberosity, the “sit” bone. Who knows how.
In the past I have referred to a person or situation as being a “pain in the a—“. I now have one.
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I am still unable to access the blog site, so you will need to forgive or overlook any errors. Thanks.
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To close I’ll quote David Brooks (Republican columnist for the NYT and NPR commentator) …
“Just another week in Caligula’s Rome.”
So … ‘til next week …