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Warm outside, warmer inside.
Submitted entry: As I put four sticks of wood into the stove Sage said: “Actually, don’t load up the stove after all, it’s pretty warm outside.” I think it’s in the low 50’s but in here it’s already 80. It’s supposed to go down to 40-45 tonight so maybe I’ll be glad that I loaded it up after all.
Today Paul woke up at 5:45 AM. He’s really tuned in to the sun - when it starts getting light he’s up and when it starts getting dark he’s getting tired. He was asleep at about 7:00 tonight - 90 minutes after sunset. It had been a fairly cool night (about 25 outside this morning) so I had to wake up a couple times to put wood in the stove. When we all woke up we were completely out of wood. Sage, woodswoman she is, went right outside and started sawing up wood for the morning and before long filled the woodbox with not one but 2-3 days of wood. Paul and I stayed inside and watched her until I’d had enough of my coffee to move. At that point I was inspired. She looked like some sort of advertisement for a hearty breakfast food like oatmeal or something. So I made pancakes while Paul hung out in the sling.
And just a quick note about pancakes here. Our pancake standards dropped for some reason over the past months. As our pancakes got worse and worse - our last ones were nearly flat (flatter than a pancake) with gooey uncooked centers and burned outsides - we despaired of our ever making a good batch again. We tried all sorts of variations to no avail. Then we ran out of baking powder (that we’d bought at the grocery salvage place) and borrowed some from Casey. Those pancakes were the best we’d made in months! So we resolved never to buy baking powder at the salvage place again and bought it at the grocery store. Problem solved - our pancakes are wonderful. So wonderful that we look forward to them the night before (I know, we need more hobbies or something) and every time we eat them we feel disgusted that we ate the others.
So as Sage sawed wood Paul and I flipped pancakes, stoked the fire, and listened to Morning Edition. It was a lovely morning. Then I went to the house to check email and get ready for a business meeting we had this afternoon and to have a shower.
The meeting was at a place that shall remain nameless until we redo their site. Their current site is so ghastly that Sage doesn’t even want to risk someone’s even thinking that we did it. I’ll probably tell the notify people and might even tell people who ask privately. We’re going to move them to a new host revamp the site and provide them with online ordering. The meeting went pretty well and we’re excited about the prospect of our being able to help them out. Not to mention the fact that Sage is a fanatic for before/after things. So for her this is one big “before” just waiting to be “aftered”. Paul was really great at the meeting - he was patient with us most of the time. When he got restless we went for a walk about town and when he came back he had a nurse and I took over at the meeting. It’s really great that we have a job such that we can make things like that happen that we could not ordinarily do with a “real” job. All our web clients are like that - Paul is invited to the meetings and breaks can happen when he nurses.
When we got back from the meeting, Sage was really on about starting on the site so I made a deal with her. Either watch Paul while I pick up outside the yurt or you pick up outside the yurt and I can hang out with him for the hours before dinner. It worked swimmingly - Sage didn’t mind picking up (I was overwhelmed at the prospect) and in about 15 minutes it was done and she was on the computer. Paul and I went for a walk down to the creek bed (there hasn’t been water in it since about early July) and he sat and played with rocks for a really long time. We got to wander through the woods for quite some time before we had to head back and give him a new diaper.
When we were done with the walk we all went back to the yurt and started dinner. I have to say after cooking dinner for everyone at Eastwind it’s been way easier to get motivated to cook for the three of us. It all seems so quick after that big meal.
Oh, and maybe I’ll have a picture for you all yet. I was going to take a couple yesterday afternoon for the journal but the camera was full and Sage needed the pictures (it’s a pain too since in order to download pictures from the camera you have to disconnect the graphics tablet and restart the computer. Restarting the computer kicks anyone else off the internet who is on our little LAN and then it has to be restarted all over again when you’re done and want the graphics tablet back. What a pain! So one of these days I’ll take a bunch of pictures to use in journal entries and whatnot. I could have scanned an old photo in from last year before we came but that felt like cheating or something.
Oh, and tomorrow I think I might get a nap or to sleep in or something. It’s my birthday! I’ll be 29 (or as Sage tells me, one year away from 30). Am I older or younger than you expected? Sage asked what I wanted for my birthday and I couldn’t think of much of anything except perhaps a nap that I’d like but boy would that feel nice!
In the middle of dinner I had to go to the house to get a green pepper from the fridge. On the way I looked up at a persimmon tree to see if there were any ripe fruit for me to eat on the way (there weren’t. Sage later told me you’re meant to look on the ground as they’re not ripe if they’re on the tree - and she was right, BLEH!) Anyway, I was shining The flashlight on the tree branches, looking at the few fruits that were left when I heard a loud snorting sound (maybe it was closer to someone clearing their throat or hacking once) and dashing through the bushes. It really startled me and Sage thought someone was yelling at her so she came out. Nobody was yelling. According to Kitey that’s the noise that deer make. We’ve been seeing a few around on the road to the house and hearing those noises at night but never caught a glimpse of them yet at the yurt. Hopefully we’ll get a look sometime soon. I’m surprised they’re coming so close! Sage went outside to pee last night and came running back in saying she heard something big running through the bushes so it sounds like they’re coming around. Kitey says that she’s known them to be curious or interested in people and that at the womens’ land where she lives she’s known them to hang out where they could hear a television. So add one to the list of visitors to the yurt. Armadillos, Skunk (and babies), possums, and deer.
Okay, it’s 9:30 - I’ve been up since 5:45. I’m off to bed. I’m exhausted!
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