Greetings, Friends!

I am hoping that this missive finds you relaxing somewhere, doing what makes you happy. Or about to relax after work and doing what makes you happy.

Because it’s important, you know, doing what makes you happy.

Vacationing with the hubster makes me happy. The song of the chain saw does not.

Why not? Because it means that the hubster is operating the chain saw at a height that makes me dizzy. I have trouble deciding whether to cover my eyes or my ears.
I hate watching him, but I also dread the sound of a grinding to a stop.

And we were on vacation!! What is it with that??

Truth be told, he just couldn’t help himself. The neighbors had begun the project, but were clearly novices. The damn patio, the damn pergola, the damn garage, the damn fence, and both houses were in peril. They needed his ladder, tools and expertise.

And it was just happenstance that we were vacationing at home with a No Electricity Weekend. More about that later.

Sitting on the back porch, we had a ringside seat to the catastrophe in the making.  So, you see, he really couldn’t help himself.

I left.  See previous comment about doing what makes you happy.  Also reference statement about hearing and sight of use of chain saw by the hubster.

At least the people who owned the tree were home and knew about it, not like that other time. But that’s a different story.

Now here’s the story about the No Electricity Weekend.  Usually when we vacation in the summer, we go camping. And when we camp, we do so without electricity.  I know, I know, we’ve gotten soft and now camp in a camper instead of backpacking. But we don’t use a hookup to electricity. We use flashlights and lanterns.

Well, this summer we have been home during some of our planned camping trips because life happened. You know how that goes.

This last weekend we felt a little stir crazy, but couldn’t leave town for the wilderness, so we brought the wilderness to us and had a No Electricity Weekend.  Lots of candles, oil lamps and lanterns, sleeping out on the porch with sleeping bags.

Note: Do you know how very dark it gets in a bathroom without windows??  Answer: about as dark as an outhouse without a skylight minus the flies.

The hubster turns off all the circuit breakers save for the fridge and freezer.  No radio, no Internet,  no noise competing for our attention. It makes for a good mini vacation.

We got in touch again after a seemingly interminable work grind since October for the hubster.  We were relaxing on the back porch.

Until the neighbors started to make a notch in the right hand vee of the tall elm without taking any of the upper branches off first. Whoa boy.

And that is how we were on vacation while the hubster was lumbering in the neighbor’s  elm tree.

Now, get out there and do something that makes you happy!!

Love,

Janet