December 27, 2002

• Another water run today…

  
  

  This one was all business.  We didn’t take the dog.  We dressed warm and worked fast.

  
  

  Temps have been going below zero Fahrenheit for several days, and are expected to get colder soon.

  
  

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  Just because it’s cold out, that is not enough of a reason for me not to take pictures.  I can’t operate the camera (I’m still using the old one… no excuses.) with my insulated gloves on, so I didn’t dawdle with that any more than Doug did at his job of filling jugs and buckets.

  
  

  Greyfox is in the kitchen now, making himself a sandwich.  I hear him singing, “Oh, the weather outside is frightful…”  He made his trip into Willow to the library as quick and no-nonsense as Doug and I did our water run.  At least he had a warm car to go in.  We warmed it up for him.   We drove across the highway first, to take warm water to the colony of feral cats over there, then on to the spring.  Cars are as averse to cold weather as we are.  Streak started okay, thanks to the block heater, but he was very hesitant to actually move out of the driveway.

  
  

  It takes a while, a bit of rolling along, to get the tires rounded out and the gears shifting smoothly, etc.  It takes even longer, in these temps, for the embedded wires in the back window to melt the ice.   

  
  

  Greyfox purchased a sweet new ice scraper for our windows.  It scrapes in two directions, coming and going.  I love it.  I have a special fondness for cheap and simple efficiency, for tools that really work.  That ice scraper is one well-designed piece of plastic.

  
  

  

  
  

  I intend to keep this blog as brief as we did our water run.  I’m still pairing amethysts–have some resorting to do since the cat jumped onto my worktable and scrambled the stones. 

  
  

  This area where I work is kinda cool despite the little ceramic space heater under the computer desk.  If I freeze out here, I’ll move over to Couch Potato Heaven next to the woodstove and play with the PS2 for a while.  No rush, no worries, no stress or strain.

  
  

  I am SO GLAD that Xmas is over.  I was euphoric bordering on ecstatic Xmas eve, having a wonderful time, staying on my diet and all.  Then we had a bit of a family fight Xmas day.  At least it was just the three of us and we cooled off fast.  Fighting, I suppose, is a family tradition.  Every time my aunts, uncles, cousins and all got together when I was a kid, there were harsh words.   I don’t mind living half a world away from those family gatherings now.

  
  

  

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