A funny thing happened this weekend: the power went out. There was a hurricane, though it didn't register as a named or numbered storm in our area, and trees fell on wires in a swampy flooded creek leaving us with no power. It wasn't really that bad since our water and gas authorities both had power; it took us about five hours to realize that there would still be water pressure, which we took as a cute sign that we're from the country and if(power=out) then(status=camp.mode).
We rejuvenated the Topton bike/car trip Saturday morning and I rode my new saddle, confirming what I had long feared: the stock saddle upon which I put over 2000 miles is not very good (and I suspect was not very good). The new one made life much better when it got rainy, too, because it holds its grip when wet. Who knew?
Today was Jenelle's first day back to WAHS. We're sad about this and the report from Petra was that Carter was sad, too. At the end of our short evening Jenelle said to him 'I feel like I hardly saw you today' and that's tough to take. Still, he smiled and fell asleep in her arms and one of those moments is worth a lifetime.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011