Random Tuesday Notes

I have been really busy so I have not been able to write. I'm taking a friend's idea of a quick, (boring) post.


Got electricity back late last Thursday which was a blessed event though I could still hear the distant hum of generators running throughout the mountains. I more often hear the chainsaw as the songbird of the mountains.


All weekend was spent cleaning up around the house. I could hear chainsaws off in the distance. Everything was a mess. I had thrown out all the spoiled food on Thursday night for Friday's garbage day. And reluctantly replenished some foods on Sunday morning. 


Today and most of this week, bring still more rain. There was a landslide on the closest road into town though I didn't see it myself. I heard about the slide on the news.  You never know when the roads will close. Sometimes it's you who are the first to discover that a road is closed when you come upon a downed tree, completely covering the road or wires laying across. It's not big deal. You can always back up and go another way or go back home or wait until a better plan hits you. There always seems to be some random issue during a big storm. Trees fall, branches fall, rocks slide, phone and electrical poles fall, cats hide under beds, electricity goes out - sometimes for days or longer. Inconvenience.


This is going to sound cheesy though living in these mountains, riding out big storms is no different than every day life. When we were kids, we'd go to the beach, and without much thought even for the hotdogs or tuna sandwiches that we were told would cause us to drown almost immediately, we'd happily rush into the water, anxiously awaiting the waves. That's exactly what the storm experience is like. It's hanging out in the ocean knowing the waves will come, just not knowing how big or hard they will hit. Still, it's not Haiti.