Fishing of another kind

August 26, 2007 (6:09am)

40º F, Clear, No Wind.

Good morning,

The last Sunday of the last week of August begins a bit crisp out. The morning temperature is a bit cooler than the past couple of days. The trees are beginning to change color a bit more each day also. The geese are starting to flock up, as are the Sandhill Cranes and the noisy crows. Both are very loud at dawn and sunset. No question that they are about. There also is much talk of hunting (deer, turkey, elk) on the radio/TV. The kids are heading back to school around here this week too. Yup. Fall is on the way. Eh?

We picked up a couple of ceiling lights to replace those in the new eating kitchen. The old ones were not very attractive and one was not very useful, kind of a homemade hybrid. The new fixtures are white globes (actually they look like someone stepped on them and made them more oval than round) and much cleaner looking. Oh yes, they also produce adequate light. I also needed to resupply some electrical fittings and boxes too.

I finally invested in a fish-tape to snake the wires through the walls. I have been using hay-wire in the past years. The new fish-tape earned it’s keep yesterday. The wiring for one ceiling light is now within the ceiling and more work for it to come. It sure makes life easier. Part of the bad spider web is now gone, along with one light switch. Both of the new lights will be operated by one switch. The lamp over the table is now on it’s own circuit and we will use it’s internal switch. While I had the fish-tape in the ceiling, I pulled two wires through. Also one for the outlets on the north wall. I should run a separate circuit for the refrigerator, but will have one outlet on it too. It should be able to handle the occasional load, but the real advantage is to be able to leave the refrigerator on and the rest of the electrical circuits off when we are not around here or don’t need the electricity on.

Margriet is anxious to have the work done already, and the range in, so she can get her kitchen back to normal again, doing some real cooking and baking. Me too! There still is much wiring to change before that happens. I did bring the small, 18", loose counter over from the main house. It is just sitting in the gathering room at the moment. It is narrower than the space it will go into, so I am considering putting a piece of plywood on it for a top to take up all of the space and give a bit more counter top to Margriet. It is a temporary thing until I can actually build some cabinets in, but that is a long time away. Still don’t know what I am going to do with the floor yet.

We decided to hit a fish-fry Friday night. We both were covered with dust and not too clean from tearing out the wall, so a shower and someone else cooking sounded rather good to us. We went to a supper club west of Crystal Falls for their fish-fry. It was rather good, but out of walleyed pike we had our eye on. The scallops and cod were excellent. It looked like the place was busy, so decided before going in that if we had a wait, we would head back to Fob’s. It turned out the place was bigger on the inside than it looked on the outside. Lots of room.

There are new water and sewer lines going in all over Crystal Falls. Outside of the city too. Some of them are for fire hydrants and they extend at least a mile west of town - so far. The main street has been more or less complete and open. There still is a top coat of blacktop yet to be laid and some of the sidewalk special corners, &c. to be completed, but everything is open. At present they are putting in some very nice “old-fashioned” looking street lamps. We hope that some of the merchants do some remodeling to the building fronts, going back to an older style of look. Some of the buildings have been painted some weird colors, but still are the old style look to them. Not pretty, but one does notice them!

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><