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| Clouds and smoke to the SW |
October 1 and we still have not had a fire in the stove. Almost unheard of! The smoke and inversion layers have definitely helped keep the heat in. I am sooo ready for the smoke to go away. The Forest Service is advising that the fire will not be completely out until snow has lain on it for the winter. Last night we could see the flames on Table Mountain, which is the reason Blewett Pass is still closed. They were several miles away from us, but it was kind of eerie to be able see them.
After doing the dishes for the week Friday morning, we drove down for another load of wood. Brought up ten pieces, but just too smokey to get any more. We have been using paper plates and wiping off our silverware after each use. Also trying to fix meals that use as few pots and pans as possible.
Brought up another load of wood on Saturday, then concentrated on cleaning up the two felled trees and five stumps around the wood shed. JB cut them all into 16" pieces, and I stacked them to get split. I also gathered and cut a few loads of branch wood.
Larry and Elsie came to visit that evening, bringing us eggs and tomatoes. Their chickens do not like the smoke and on the worst days only lay two or three eggs. We had a great visit and Elsie asked if I wanted to come down and take a shower on Sunday. O, bless her!!
Sunday morning JB made bacon and eggs with Elsie's tomatoes, that actually taste like tomatoes. Along with that we had dilly bread toast from the loaf that JB had baked on Thursday. Then I drove down for a shower. Oh my, did I feel pampered. And we had decided that we would definitely rest on Sunday, with all the heavy work we had been doing, so we got out the winter clothes and put the summer ones away. JB sorted out his and got rid of three bags worth of clothes he swears he does not need. At this point he has room for all his clothes for the year in his side of the closet. Well, good for him. But I like a bit more diversity and choice in my wardrobe.
When we lived Down There near large cities, such as San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago, I would often get a "24-hour bug." Since we have lived Up Here, I have never had one - until the smoke. Now I honestly think that those were not bugs at all, but rather a reaction to pollution. Hmmm. . .
Am finally reading a book I have had for several years, Spiritual Literacy - Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. An excellent book and one I can really relate to having been Up Here for four years.
Thought for the day: The spiritual life is, at root, a matter of seeing. It is all of life seen from a certain perspective. It is waking, sleeping, dreaming, eating, drinking, working, loving, relaxing, recreating, walking, sitting, standing and breathing. . . spirit suffuses everything; and so the spiritural life is simply life, wherever and whatever, seen from the vantage point of spirit." John Shea, Catholic theologian
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