Seeing Orange

November 17, 2006 (12:11pm)

36º F, Calm clouds, W wind 4 mph.

Good afternoon,

I think the hunt is about ready to start. Went uptown a bit ago and the highway is filled with pickups and SUV’s heading north. Some have visible hunter’s orange in them also. Can remember when. Should be at the cabin about this time - if everything went to plan. Probably sweating a lot too - hauling all of the gear down the hog’s back. In this kind of weather it would definitely be a sweatin’ time. Bet it is rather slippery on the oak leaves with all of the moisture we have had in the recent past. Fun going down the hog’s back, but a real thrill going up!

While I was uptown, I stopped at the postoffice and there was a notice in the mail for Margriet to appear in Milwaukee for her biometerics to be taken for the renewal of her green card. Guess we will miss Bible study on December 5th. It will be good to get that out of the way - again. Hope we don’t have a snow storm. Seems most time we have gone there at this time of year one has come making things interesting. Especially the driving part.

Margriet has been getting caught up on our "ledger" for the past couple of days. She had problems accessing the spreadsheet with her computer, but now that the new WordPerfect program is installed, it is working better than ever. The program has a few new tricks to it and she is slowly catching up on them. Seems weird to hear her adding and subtracting in Dutch though. She could use the machine, but prefers to do it "in her head," coming out of her mouth.

We did have one scare with the ledger. She opened the sheets for last year and the were only completed for the first 2½ months of the year! Panic time! We had all of the receipts, but it would mean many hours of effort for her to reconstruct the rest of the year. After doing some looking and fussing, she discovered a second file and it was the complete year. Whew! After making sure everything was correct and complete, she discarded the "old" file from the computer. I also had a copy of the old file (and only the old one) on a different memory stick. I removed it too and will replace it with the new complete one when she is finished getting caught up again.

Time to make another pot of soup. We used the last of the last batch today for lunch. Think I might make some bean soup this time. Found some neck bones in the freezer and we haven’t had any for some time now. Think it will be good and I am getting hungry for some already. Have to wait until tomorrow though. Took some chicken thighs out for supper tonight. Not sure how they will be fixed yet, but bet they disappear!

Don’t understand the high price of gasoline at present. The crude prices are the lowest they have been in a year, but the price is still 20¢/gallon above last year. It is interesting to see the fluctuation of the price while Margriet is doing the books. It sure what a lot higher in price a few months ago! Still too high and anything over $2.00/gallon (our tipping point for the budget) is too high for us. It really restricts our travel and movements. The van doesn’t move most days at all.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><