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| Our clean and fairly level splitting area. |
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| Blondie & Betty eating breakfast, after Belinda got her fill. |
Wednesday 11/4. I made oatmeal for the girls this morning and put dehydrated broccoli and a few pomegranate arals in it. Oh, my! Did they love that!
Buster was up to visit this morning. Last Saturday he was here at 6:00 am! He is such a character. But today's visit completely wore out Jesse. It is the first time he has come inside before Buster left.
After lunch and chores, JB used the tractor to clean up and level the area where we use the splitter. He moved a few bucket loads to the north side of the large swale, where I stacked it all against the side to reinforce it. Then he used the bucket to scrape the splitting area, dumping the dirt on the lower north side. I raked it, effectively creating a small swale. Looks good.
Alcoa announced that they are cutting way back on smelting and will be laying off 400 people in Wenatchee alone. That is going to be a big economic blow to the area. So if there is going to be little or no smelting of iron, steel or aluminum in the United States, what do we do in the case of war or other situations where a lot of those are needed? Why is this country putting itself in a situation of relying so heavily on other countries?
We watched The Postman starring Kevin Costner this evening. One of the first apocalyptic movies. . .
Thursday 11/5. It was 34 and mostly cloudy with a breeze this morning.
JB left for Down There a little after 10:00 am to run several errands, go to his regular pace-maker check up, and possibly spend some of his birthday money. I spent the day inside mostly doing chores, working on my computer and getting the rose hips ready to make marmalade. Got a bit of a late start on the rose hips as they need to be in the steamer/juicer for 2-1/2 hours. I was able to get a pint of juice, then it took me almost two hours to squeeze the seed pods out of all of them. I will cook and can the marmalade tomorrow.
A light rain began falling just before 1:00 pm and lasted about an hour. JB called to see if it was snowing. He arrived home at 4:30 pm, and had met a neighbor on the road up. Always good to chat and get the latest news.
Snow is in the forecast for early next week. We can only hope that it holds off until Monday night, as the tree people are coming up on Monday to take down our three trees.
Friday 11/6. It is 34 and mostly cloudy again this morning.
Thought for the day: Be alert. The world needs more lerts. (This was one of my Mother's favorites. She taught grade school for 25 years and always had this sign in her classroom.)
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