Hi everyone!

I’ve been gone for a few days. My friend Helene and I went to the Chickens In The Road Retreat (CITR)  in West Virginia! We’re back! We’re glad to be back! We had a nice time and met wonderful people who share some common interests. However, we also realized that we didn’t have to go to West Virginia to learn home canning, make soap, quilting,  apron making, pie making, yogurt making and so forth.     If you live in rural Southwest Virginia, do any of these activities sound familiar to you? Me too! I What were we thinking? 

Once we got there, we realized that we could have stayed home and done these things and slept in our own beds instead of sleeping on a very small, very tiny, very stained mattress!!

Plus, because I wasn’t watching my dates, we missed the Saturday performances at Rhythm and Roots.

Before I left, Mike hung the new kitchen light. My old light is pictured below…it was a light that traveled with us from Massachusetts for sentimental reasons. I do not want to get rid of it…I think we’ll find a new home for it in the guest house…but it just looked a little brassy. That light is a tart!

Sorry about this giant picture…it was from my media library on Word Press and I was using a different photo editor when this photo was taken.

And here comes the new light…which I got at a great price and yakked about that in a previous post (here if you wish to read).

Mike, not an electrician (at all), hung the light. I stood about patiently while he grimaced, glared and made faces and said unmentionable words.   However, eventually, he got the light hung! Doesn’t it look great? Sorry about the darkness of the picture…there are just so few times my table is clean and I can take a picture.

And then..within 48 hours, it started.   If the phone rang and the dishwasher was on, the lamp, phone and dishwasher went off.   We tried to figure out what it was and somehow ended up without the well pump working. Next the refrigerator was not working…we had to get an extension cord and plug it into a different outlet.

Chrissy the Cat laid low during the whole ruckus.  She stayed under the table.

Me:  Hey Chrissy…can I get under there with you?

Chrissy:  No Silly Human…you may not!   Now get me some food before I pee on this chair leg. 

 

So all that happened on Thursday morning, and I left for CITR.  I was happy to be pulling out. Things were a bit tense around here.   A few hours after I left,  an electrician arrived and I think the problem is resolved. No more DIY light installations.

I’m back home (we left early).  West Virginia is beautiful, but Clinch Mountain is my mountain.

I am so happy to be home.