September 07, 2005
Backyard Blogging
Majestic clouds near Seaview, Puna
Well I pulled the laptop out so I could just do something other than complain or unpack a box and low and behold I came out to the lanai and fired it up and someone has a wireless network up, I think its our neighbor, Don, next door. He wont mind if I use a bit of bandwith... I got a router and stuff and our access is up and running... having Geek Squad here in the am to help in setting up the network.
God is letting the computer work as so many things are not working out... Mostly its just newness and God bless, it will get all familiar as time goes by. By the way nothing in this world can compare to sleeping in your own bed. It is bliss!
I am finding that I still have way too much stuff and we hualed out a computer desk I had bought as a scratch and dent place to put up for sale. I have a antique colapsable table that opens on both ends so I will have a computer (desktop) at both ends one for Woody and one for myself. The couple that hacks together stays together??? I dont know at present if both systems are even functional we just cant seem to get that far in the unpacking, We are still struggling with getting all of our dishes pots and pans ect out of boxes and into cabinets that were designed for midgets. These folks didnt seem to cook much or they had only one pot and one drinking glass each. Truthfully, I looked the place over and never gave it much thought, the place was stuffed to the rafters with stuff, so I felt my own pile of stuff would fit... I feel like George Carlin talking about "stuff"
The Deer are "running" and their season has begun early. The locals say this means a hard winter ahead. We have had small herds pass through the area at night heading down to Lake Avalon to drink and hang out. The township is a gun free zone as far as hunting goes so everyone is safe more or less.
As I sit here I see the last few fireflies. We have come to love the creatures. They epitomise our experience as a "Malahini" or newcommer to this area. I have come out here at night when I cant sleep and listened to the night noises and wondered at the symphony of sounds... Its truly amazing
It makes the nightly cold showers easier to deal with. The water heating system we wanted to put in has been one disaster after another. Now the unit has been deemed defective and a new one is being ordered. Woody has made himself odious with his constant" follow up " calls that no one wants to talk to him any more. He is also odious to me as he is a unmotivated bather at the best of times and cold water turns him into wimpy butt... Me...hey, after 5 minutes you get used to it and with my variying afflictions, daily bathing is a needed and well deserved ritual. He marveled at my 25 minutes under a cold spray. He said that if I had balls, I couldnt do it. My response was that "I have them mentally and that is all that is required in this life, now get your smelly rear end in the bath tub!" Woody retorted that I would have made a great Drill Instructor.
We are looking at another 7-10 days of this. Every time I start to bitch I think of how life would be living on an overpass in the middle of a stinking swamp that was your city. That shuts me up everytime.
