Just a quickie to fill you in on this weeks activities. Monday started out with a mouse doing the back stroke in the toilet. There is no way he could have climbed into there so we were thinking he might have climbed up the shower curtain and then did a swan dive into the toilet. I took pity on him (yeah, right) and flushed him down. Now he has a big swimming pool to exercise in. Every time I used the facilities, I worried that he would swim back up and bite me in the butt! Remember when we were young and we would worry that a snake would swim up the toilet and attack us? Ok, maybe you didn't think along those lines, but I did.
Tuesday, I set a tree on fire. Monday night I cleaned out the wood stove and set the ashes outside to cool before tossing them out. Pa had mentioned that he had dumped some out by some trees so Tuesday in the late morning, I took the cold ashes and dumped them in the middle of a hollow tree. Tom came over later and as I was outside talking to him I looked over and noticed smoke coming out of the tree. Pa, Tom and I managed to put it out using buckets and a squirt bottle. Flames were clear up in the top of the tree. Luckily there was no wind. Usually Juniper burns quick and hot. Most of the tree was hollow and filled with a sawdust type of stuff so I dug that all out. It was hot so would have started up again eventually. I'm telling ya, we were so blessed and God was watching out for us because the surrounding grass could have ignited and burned the whole place down or the wind could have kicked up and set other trees on fire. Obviously the ashes weren't as cold as I thought they were. I had been dumping ashes in the garden but thought there was enough ash in there. Pa forgot to mention that when he dumped ashes around the trees that he had watered them down a lot. Tell me the whole story, Pa!!!!!
Thursday, we picked up Tom bright and early and went to Gallup to check things out. We found a nice Goodwill and had fun poking around in there. We checked out the Ace hardware, Safeway, Big Lots, Home Depot, Walmart. We ate lunch at Golden Corral. As we were sitting there eating, a couple walked in with an old Indian woman, She looked ancient with all kinds of wrinkles and in a calico skirt. Typical of what you would picture in your mind. She was so fascinating to look at but I didn't want to stare. I finally asked the younger woman if that was her grandmother. She said it was her mother in law. I told her that she was so beautiful. And she was. Her entire life was etched on her face. The majority of people you see in Gallup are Indians.
Yesterday I ran into town and got a load of water and the mail. I usually make Pa go since I don't like going into town. I've become a regular hermit. Next thing you know, I'll be walking around in clothes made of bark and my skin will be weather beaten and the texture of petrified wood. Oh, and my teeth will be all black and chipped and I'll walk with a hunched back and have a runny eye that looks a different direction than the other one. Ain't I pretty?
Plans for today include loading up another load of horse poo from down the road and till it in the garden. Our big generator blew the mother board again so Pa has to haul it to Vegas for repairs. We can't figure out why it keeps doing that, 2 in a year so far. We don't use it very much so it is very discouraging. I'm hoping we can fix it, then sell it and get another brand.
One morning Pa took a shot at a rabbit with the pellet gun. He hit the dirt right under the bunnies tail, the tail flew up and the rabbit didn't even know he had been shot at. It was the funniest sight I ever saw. The bunny continued to sit there and then ambled off like all was right with the world. I saw an eagle on my way to town yesterday. It flew right in front of my truck window. So beautiful!
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