Beltane Moon of the Summer Solstice
Today is the power outage, scheduled to begin in half an hour. A damaged Xcel transmission line has to get repaired. Pinecam.com has been abuzz. Bad IREA folks for not posting a map of the affected area.
Weird phenomenon. Because folks who got the letters or phone calls from IREA knew about the outage two or so weeks ago they posted about it on Pinecam. Then, those who had not gotten letters or phone calls began to worry that they, too, were affected and had not been told. This went from suspicion to certainty with demands to do it on another date or at night. At night?
Turns out IREA had not posted a map so crooks couldn’t use it as a reference for break-ins. And, no letter or no call, no outage. Oh. Everybody calmed down.
Apparently, at least according to Seth who installs solar panels, when the grid goes down, the solar does not pick up the slack. Just why I’m not sure, but I’m waiting for the event to find out. Nothing like an empirical test. Anyhow, since we have a generator, we should be fine, but it’s not been used since Patrick worked on it back in January or so. A test for it, too. Maybe.
Meanwhile Tyler is coming today to finish removing the slash, not much left. When he’s done with that, he and I will stack all the logs bucked for Seth and Hannah into short piles so those two can get them easily. That will mark the end of this phase of fire mitigation. There are other matters, but they will wait awhile. I’m tired of the lumberjack life right now. Literally. Tired to the bone from it.
Ruth and Gabe come up last night. We have them through Friday afternoon. This is our first time with them since the divorce news. We’re very glad to see them and will provide a point of stability and love. A hard time for kids since they need to sort all this stuff out, too.
Some hiking for Ruth and me, a trip to Dinosaur Ridge, then a picnic at Red Rock Ampitheater today or tomorrow. Gabe had a bad bleed a couple of weeks ago and his physical therapist told him no running or jumping until July! He’s 8. That’s a tough restriction. The problem is that if this bleed gets exacerbated and recurs it can become a continuing problem. For life. High stakes for a young child.
Well, fourteen minutes to lights out. I’ll let you know.
