November 20, 2015 A Lesson Not Learned & Homework

Snow-plastered bird house.

Moving the swing seat.

Wednesday 11/18. We had actually received two inches of snow during the night, not one inch.

Randy called this morning.  Our wind storm reached him last night.  Says he feels lucky to still have a roof on his house!  Several trees were down across his road, but fortunately a neighbor got them all cleaned up.

While grinding up cabbage in the garbage disposal for the septic tank this morning, I did not use enough water and managed to clog up the drain.  Have sent many a ground cabbage down the drain before and this never happened.  So we spent the better part of this afternoon cleaning that out.  Had to completely take out the garbage disposal to get to the clogged pipe.  I have very little patience with plumbing issues, so not only was the air heavy with the lovely scent of cabbage, it was also turning blue as I verbalized my bad attitude.  Pretty sure the Universe was trying to teach me something.  Pretty sure I did not learn whatever it was.

We are seeing deer almost every day now, whether from the porch or on our walks.  Very unusual, as the dogs more often than not chase them off before we get a sighting.

Our son was telling us about a special homework assignment our 11-year-old grandson was given for his religion class (they attend a Catholic school).  He has to keep a daily journal, written as if he was a slave building the pyramids.  His third entry read: Today the pharaoh increased our work hours, so the rest of my entries won't be as long.  Smart kid!

In talking to Larry on the radio this evening, we found out that they barely got a dusting of snow.  We were on the north east side of the storm, so there was really nothing to the north of us.

Thursday 11/19. It was 30 and lightly snowing this morning.  The snow fell til about noon, but was so light, it barely made a difference.

I let the dogs out at 4:00 am and there must have been a lot of critters out and about because Jesse stayed out barking for more than 1-1/2 hours!  I put in a fire and just curled up on the love seat.  Finally JB got up, went out on the porch and fired off a round.  Within a couple minutes Jesse was back home.  So when I finally got up at 8:00 am, I fed the girls and dogs, made my coffee, did one sudoku, and was back in bed at 9:00 am for an hour.  Just couldn't stay awake.

Larry called before they left for work this morning to let us know there was a tree across the road in the aspen.  He said it was small enough to cut with a hand saw, so JB will do that when he goes Down There on Saturday.

After laundry and lunch, JB moved the seat of the swing with the tractor over to the porch.  Since we do not have any wood stacked on the north end, we decided to put the swing seat, porch chairs and a bench there, and cover them with a tarp.  That will protect the porch from snow just like a row of wood.  A big job, and by the time we were done around 2:00 pm, the sun was shining in a blue sky.

Buster braved the snowing road to come up and visit for a while.  Once again, Jesse took a long nap after he left.  Well, if Buster is here then the tree across the road must have been moved as his owner would have to do that to get to his cabin.

Our high for the day was 34, but there was very little melting.  Still snow on the trees that weren't in the sun.

Friday 11/20. It is 26 with blue sky this morning.  The forecast is for mostly dry weather through next week so we just might be able to make it to Seattle for Thanksgiving.

Thought for the day: I feel it is healthier to look at the world through a window rather than through a mirror.  With a mirror, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.  Bill Withers

Speaking of mirrors, I have to mention a plaque I saw in a catalogue that read:  My house is haunted.  Every time I look in a mirror, I see a crazy old lady!