January 17. 2018 Well Pump Seems To Be Working!

The sun working hard
to burn off the fog.

Snow slipping off the roof
of the wood shed.

Monday 1/15. I was on my way Down There in Miss Kitty a little before 9:00 am.  First stop, the laundromat, which usually takes 1-1/2 hours depending upon how many items I have to fold.  Then on to Costco and Fred Meyer, buying water and a few other items, since I was down there.

Back at Larry and Elsie's, had a nice chat with Elsie and was home just before 3:00 pm.  In order to get up our driveway, I had to shovel about 50' in the middle of the tracks to keep Miss Kitty from belly panning.  This will certainly be the last trip UP our road for Miss Kitty until the thaw.  In the next day or two we will drive her down to the main road and park her there, using MAX to go back and forth.  We did that a few years ago and it worked out very well.

Tuesday 1/16. It was 31 and overcast with 1" of new snow this morning.  The cloud cover soon disappeared and the fight began between the sun and the fog.  Today the sun won out!  The fog remained in the canyons and valleys, but we had a nice sunny day with a high of 37.  

We spent a leisurely morning reading newspapers and magazines, then took the dogs for the morning walk.  The past several days we have seen a lot of new deer tracks, as we did today.

JB got the card out of the game cam yesterday, but we need their specific software in order to download the pictures.  He will take care of that tomorrow.

In Sunday's paper I discovered an article "In Memory of Sue Grafton"!!  I had no idea that she had passed away in December.  She wrote the Kinsey Milhone alphabet mysteries that I love so much.  Last year she released Y is for Yesterday, which I have not yet read.  Her family says that as far as they are concerned, the alphabet ends in Y.

We each took a short shower today, as JB is fairly certain that he had resolved the issue with the well pump.  He ran the pump and, sure enough, water was coming in!  

Since we will be driving Miss Kitty down to park at the main canyon road tomorrow, today I put a new fuse in for the windshield wiper.  We really need a new wiper also, but at least it works now.  Also gassed up both MAX and Miss Kitty.  I have driven Miss Kitty so much that we are running low on gas.  Will have to buy some more next trip Down There.

While we were getting an inch of snow last night, Larry and Elsie were getting pouring rain.  Pouring so hard it actually woke them up.  They are about 2000' below us and a little to the west.  I doubt I will ever figure out our mountain weather.

Wednesday 1/17. It is 26 and lightly snowing this morning.  Must have just started, as there is very little white on the porch stairs.

Thought for the day: Books turn muggles into wizards.