Tuesday

Rain, rain, hail and more hail with lightning popping around the cabin, what a day for wet wicked weather and in between there was brilliant sunshine, yikes!!! Crazy, the southwest in burning and the north Midwest is flooding and Florida finally got some of the wet weather. Well the day wasn't completely awash(no pun intended) as I managed to get a little painting done after my quiet time and mountain breakfast of buckwheat cakes with a banana and red raspberries in the batter and a couple home grown cackleberries on top, wow the yokes are so orange in color.

I headed down in the basement after checking for deer damage and thankfully found none. I'm still having some of the floor paint peel so I mixed up a soapy water with degreaser after taking a putty knife and scraping the raised paint pockets. Its strange how some areas the paint is fine and other areas its peeling, anyhow I scrubbed those areas after vacuuming up the lose paint chips then coated those areas with a product called LOCK-DOWN. That is supposed to bind any paint to the floor,; we will see and if that doesn't work then its indoor-outdoor carpet next year.

The sun was shining brilliantly so I headed out onto the deck to paint the spacer boards black and paint the high end(on the top of the scaffold) window on the upper side of the cabin. Notice how everything is mention as either upper or lower and nothing level; well that's the way it is here, nothing level unless your in the cabin or on the porches. Well I finished painting from the 3rd level of the scaffold so after lunch Nancy helped me break it down, now the rest of the painting will be from the second tier or lower; sure am glad that high ordeal is over.

The afternoon saw storm clouds building and wasn't long we we unplugged everything and all"-ell broke lose". Yikes lightning was flying everywhere and the arrestor on the electrical box in the basement was cracking and popping and the lights blinking. Luckily we never lost total power just momentarily but lightning did strike a concrete well cover on top of the mountain that we know of. On a later hike around 4:30 we noticed the concrete well encasement was split and laying open. We will have to notify someone on Wednesday as its unoccupied. We barely made it back to cabin ahead of another storm with the same scenario; thunder, lightning, hail and a "gully washer" of rain down pour.

We managed to fix supper in between the storm and its voracity as we were scheduled to play Sequence with neighbors Grant and Shirley at 7 at their place. There were several of her family and friends there so we headed down driving the truck in a gentle rain by now after 1/2 hours of rain. The little creek by their place was roaring and up to the banks, earlier large rocks were being washed through their culvert making a noise so loud it was heard inside the cabin. Anyhow the gals with Nancy playing a "Harvey Hand"(remember the white rabbit no one could see) as we were one gal short as play goes around the table so they whupped us(guys) 6-0. We finally called it an evening and headed home around 9:30 or so.

I was whupped not only from Sequence but from painting and starting the day out before 6 AM. Up and down the hill, scaffolding, in the basement and on the ladder had we worn to a frazzle. So after a hot shower I was asleep by the time my head hit the pillow. We had over 4 inches of rain in 24 hours, LATER.