Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Seventy years, or should I say 3 and one half scores, ago the Empire of Japan attached the US by bombing Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands; the day after, the US Congress and at the request of President Roosevelt, declared war on Japan marking the beginning of, hopefully, the last world-wide conflagration we we all see... Fittingly, I watched Pearl Harbor last night (the newer version with Ben Affleck).

This past week was full of action here... First, one day Jan and I woke up to have no running water in the house... Immediately, your mins goes wild and you go "Oh shit, the well ran dry; or maybe it collapsed (as it happened to the Ferguson down the street); or maybe the pump went again (another $1,600), or who knows what happened now..." At any rate, we called our water guy, Greg Smith from Valley Water, and after $180 he had fixed one of our filtering units which's piston got stuck in one position thus draining the system. All is back to normal....

Second, one morning, Saturday, we walk up to really loud barks form Bella (nothing unusual when deer come into the yard), but also Pancho and Bo; bolted from bed and looked outside to see a herd of eight heads of cattle in our backyard going away from our house and towards the end of the property... Cattle??? Where the heck did they come from? What do I do with them? Who do I call, the game warden? hey eventually return to the back yard and then crossed the creek to go on to the next property (William's daughter's). Haven't seem them since and nobody has any idea where those things came from...

Third, on Saturday we attended Patty & William's birthday party, hosted by Pat Ross. Patty turned 50 and William 60. It was a 'masquerade' and we all did our best with our masks! We had lots of fun with the birthday kids, Pat Ross, Hank & Terri Douglas, Danny & Donna Authement, Paul & Shelli Driscoll, Ginny & Bill Loos, Barbara Madge, Pat & Bea, Patty's son and his fiancee...

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