Bang start- Bang end

August 28, 2007 (5:30pm)

76º F, Heavy rain, SSE Wind, 2 mph.

Good evening,

Our day started with a bang and it looks like it will end with one. Well.. Really several bangs. Woke up this morning to some very loud thunder and the accompanying lightening. We really need the rain and mother nature seems to be cooperating. This morning’s rain was about ½” I would guess and we have probably an inch so far this afternoon/evening. It is nice to have after the humidity really got up there this morning. At the moment the power is off. First time for that. Guess we will have to light the kerosene lamps pretty soon. Of course now that the old range is out of the house, Margriet is cooking with electricity, which is interrupted also. Now she has something else to fret about.

During this mornings rain, the internet caused some problems, and now it is again. I suspect the weather has something to do with it, but it should not. This morning, about the time I was heading for the phone to call the ISP, everything started to work again. I have a feeling it will again, after the storm blows through. I will call/email them and try to find out if this is something we can expect to happen due to weather. I don’t think it should, but not real sure about that.

6:20 pm

So the pasta finally sat in hot water long enough to finish cooking. The chicken was at the “done” point already when the power went off. There ain’t none left now, so must have been good. The power came back on again too. So things are getting back to normal again. We lit Grandma’s kerosene lamp and it works as it has for so many year. Really a cool light source and very vintage. Love it eh!

The internet is not back, so called the ISP and they tried to reach us without any success. They well be sending someone out tomorrow to hopefully take care of the problem. The tech said it sounded like a router problem. Hope they come early and repair it early too. This will not go out until tomorrow at the earliest. Sounds like if it is the router, we may be getting a new one I would bet. Looks like this will be combined with tomorrow’s.

So I pretty much disassembled the old range. I hope I can salvage parts of it to make a small cook top to use as an auxiliary cook surface for picnics or some such in the future. Might even use it in the shop to make coffee too. The oven part is shot, needing a new gas valve/thermostat so the cost is out of the question. The range has not taken very good care of it. Lots of broken/bent parts on it. I hope I will have a small supply of some sheet metal if nothing else. There is some stainless steel in it as well. Hate to throw that away.

We did get a couple of bills paid today. Still have some to go yet. Sure am having continuing problems with the phone company in Kewaunee. Glad to have that ended and we don’t have anything to do with it. We still get a notice one day that we owe some money, then a few days later telling us we have a credit balance. Goofy!

This morning, we took a ride over to see the pastor and find out what the lessons were I will be reading on Sunday. He was in the process of getting things together for Sunday’s service. I teased him that he better get after his sermon. He said he would not be there as he and his wife would be on vacation! The service will be conducted by a member who is also a Lay Minister. Sounds like the Lay Ministers are taking over! There will be 3 of us taking care of the service. Cool eh! We had a very nice chat. He and his wife have been married 2 years. At least it is his wife’s second marriage, but we are not sure of Doug’s past. Interesting. We will I think have some good times with them.

Now the rain has stopped, and before long I will be hitting the sack for the night. Maybe I will add more to this in the morning - if we get the ISP working again

August 29, 2007 (6:10am)

Good morning,

The ISP is working this morning (Hooray!), so will send this as is.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><