Mar 8, 2013 Less Than One Minute!



The grove on Wednesday
(as compared to Tuesday's photo)



JB hiking home after his Jeep
got stuck























Wednesday, 3/6. Rose Camp is white again, the ground, the trees, the roofs.  Covered with 3-1/2" of powder when JB measured it at 6:45 am on his way to clear off the solar panels.  He still planned to leave for Down There in his Jeep by 8:00 am, but actually drove out at 8:20.  Things were going just fine and he made it almost to the canyon road till he made a wide turn at mushroom corner and got stuck.  He tried for a while to dig out but called to say it wasn't working and he was going to walk back.  I had just finished the dishes, so the dogs and I walked down to meet him.  JB called Larry and told him that we would take him up on his offer to pick up MAX's belt for us. . .

After lunch I gave JB a break and went up to clean off the panels.  I measured the snow and we now had 5-/12".  Brought in firewood and then cleaned off the deck.  By then a nap sounded good, so the dogs joined us on the bed for more than an hour.  We ended up with a total of 6+ inches of snow.  It had been falling for 48 hours straight.  I believe it's the first time that's happened since we moved Up Here.

Larry arrived at 7:00 pm with MAX's belt.  We had told him to just leave it in JB's Jeep or MAX, but he was having no problems driving, so he came all the way up.  Once again, Larry's Delivery Service comes through.  He stayed for an hour's visit and the major topic of discussion was Posse Comitadus.  That is the act of 1878 that prevents the government from using the military against its citizens.  The concept of this act goes back to the Magna Carta and then our Articles of Confederation.  In August 2012, a Congressional research organization made a study of Posse Comitadus for Congress and some of their committees.  Couldn't find who requested this, but I could make a good guess.  Unfortunately, thanks to Bush, Homeland Security is not military and can do anything it damned well pleases to any citizen without a warrant or trial.  Senator Rand Paul questioned Attorney General Holder about using drones to shoot American citizens and Holder said he had the authority to do just that under Homeland Security.  (See trunews.com, archives)  When will the American public wake up?!  Too late to do anything, I'm afraid.  This was never meant to be a political blog, but there are such blatantly wrong doings by such arrogant power mongers that I would certainly be writing about them in a personal journal, and this blog is a diary afterall.

Thursday, 3/7.  JB was up with the dogs for an hour at 5:30 am, so he slept in til 8:15 when he got back to bed.  Unfortunately, so did I and I felt like sh*t when I got up.  Am going to set the alarm from now on so I am always up by 7:30. 

It was overcast and 25 but at least it has stopped snowing. . . for now.  A good day to work on MAX.  Wasn't long before the sun popped out and the snow started disappearing, along with the clouds.  Dripping off the trees like rain, sliding down the tipi, and slipping off the shed roofs en masse, while the temperature soared into the mid 30's.

I had promised myself that I would clean off my desk this morning and I really did do it.  Found several items I had been missing and was able to throw away a large pile of papers.  Would love to be able to actually sit at my desk and write, instead of always at the dining table.

After lunch we headed down to MAX with the new belt.  In talking to Larry Wednesday evening, we realized that we were not doing exactly what he did when he changed the belt.  But first we tried the way that Recreative Industries told us to do it, and we had the new belt on in less than a minute!  We just stood back, stunned.  Almost afraid to celebrate, because there just must be something wrong.  But we closed MAX up, and decided to drive to JB's Jeep to see if we could get it unstuck.  MAX did great, and away we went.  Worked an hour digging around the Jeep, but it still sits where it was.

By the time we arrived home at 2:30 pm, the next front had moved in, eating up all the sunshine, and it was already snowing in the canyon.  By 3:00 pm, the snow had reached Rose Camp, but we were on the edge of the storm so snowfall and hail were on again, off again until sunset, when it stopped altogether.

Friday, 3/8.  A cloudless sky and 20 degrees.  A perfect day for JB to go Down There for grocery shopping.  His doctor's appointment has been cancelled once again and will be rescheduled for April or May.

Thought for the day: Remember, democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.  There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.  John Adams