Saturday, October 5, 2024

2024 Project 365 – Week Thirty-nine

This was a week of mourning and calls to action, of sitting with disbelief and getting shit done, of wanting to change our climate wrecking ways and missing our creature comforts. Also there were wars and rumors of wars, lies and damned lies, and the US election train barreling down the tracks. Whew!

Sunday, September 29th        

Day three of no power. We took our laundry to Dad & Sue’s house and Dr. M talked politics with Dad while Sue & I went to our churches. Then my brother & his wife came over and we had lunch. It was nice! But no photos of that - instead you get photos of our homesteading efforts that night. This was a time when I was really glad to have books on my kindle app on my phone - no need to try to read by lantern light!


Monday,  September 30th  

No photo today, so here is a picture of our sheep neighbors from last week. They remind me of this sheep art installation from a few years ago - ha!



Tuesday, October 1st    

Our power came back on! Woohoo!



Wednesday, October 2nd   

No photo. 


Thursday, October 3rd     

I just wanted to give a shout out to the spider in my shower this morning. Most of the time I have to perform some sort of gymnastic routine to avoid washing my visitors down the drain. This little dude(ette?) scurried behind the shower curtain & has lived to see another day. Good work! Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.



Friday, October 4th      

I finally updated my wooden calendar and I had to laugh at myself. Dr. M painted a lovely square for Columbus Day, but of course that’s something we don’t really celebrate anymore. Last year I just left it off. This year I tried something different. Ha! (Note: I added the vote square to the show first day of early voting in NC.)



Saturday, October 5th      

I’ve spent the day catching up on reading and cleaning the house. A couple of weeks ago I signed up to write postcards to send to voters and they arrived yesterday - all 200 of them. Oh my goodness what in the world was I thinking? I have terrible handwriting and also I have some arthritis or some such in my right thumb. I think I’m supposed to have a card writing party, but that involves asking people and arranging things. However, I have 21 days before I’m supposed to mail them & if I do 10 per day then I shouldn’t have to try to gather friends together in some fashion. Sounds like a plan to me!




I am the Queen of Compartmentalizing so because I was trying to not think too much about the devastation to the west of me I was SO PRODUCTIVE at work this week! I started tackling a big project I’ve been dreading, and also took care of some other things that I’d been avoiding. Now that it’s the weekend I’m allocating more of my bandwidth to the world around me. Hard but necessary focus. What are you doing this weekend?


10 comments:

  1. Poor, poor North Carolina. I hope you didn't lose too much in your refrigerator/freezer while the power was out. I'm sure getting that text was such a lift and a relief.

    Writing those postcards goes very quickly. You'll be surprised. I knock out 40 at a time.

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    1. We took our deep freeze stuff to my dad's so we really only lost some things from the fridge that we decided not to worry about.

      I had to stop writing cards after I'd done 10 last night because my handwriting degrades (whatever is going on with my thumb causes it to spasm after a while - I actually signed one card "Dana, of the terrible handwriting!"

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  2. I still haven't heard from a friend on the west coast of Florida post-Helene, and now they're getting ready to get swacked again by Milton. This is like watching a bad re-run of the Katrina/Rita debacle. At least we learned a few lessons about how not to evactuate in Rita.

    You ought to have been fine with the power coming back on after three days -- re: the freezer, that is. One of the things I do when there's a storm lurking is fill any empty freezer space with water. The ice extends the period stuff's good. And yes, I have empty freezer space. The other thing I do prior to the beginning of hurricane season is inventory things and start using up stuff I wouldn't want to lose in a storm, like blueberries and peaches I've frozen.

    I went out and roamed yesterday in a spot I haven't visited in years, and had a right good time. In fact, I bought a year's pass; it's $5/day or $50/year, and in three months I'll have used it enough to break even. Planning!

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    1. Oh I hope you hear from your friend soon! It's hard to not be able to communicate & know what's happening.

      That's pretty genius putting the water in the freezer. We took our stuff to my dad's since we thought we'd be a full week without power - and I wouldn't have been comfortable even though it ended up just being 100 hours.

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  3. I had to laugh about you and the spider, because I do EXACTLY the same thing -- try my best not to wash them away! It's difficult! And of course they resist being moved because they don't know I'm trying to save them!

    I wonder if your church friends would help with the postcards? If you get in a pinch, that is.

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    1. And my shower is basically a stall - and very small! It takes quite an effort to not wash things away.

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  4. I know I commented on this. I love that light fixture. I think I told you to send it to me. I did do an image search and there are several available (I think) but they are in Romania.

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    1. That's bizarre! Well, this home was built (I think) in the 1990s - maybe that's where they were getting those lights then. Ha!

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  5. I'm glad your power is back but feel so sorry for your fellow Carolinians to the west of you. Now Florida is tensing for a direct hit again.

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    1. Yes - things are really scary in Florida right now!

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