Our gray snowy days are at an end for the time being and we have warmth, although thanks to the grid of chemtrail left by yesterday's aircraft, all light filters through a uniform layer of haze.
Yes, I believe it. I've witnessed the entire procedure often in the past, although it's been a couple of years since the last such activity in this area, I think, and I was surprised to see them about their work yesterday morning. Numerous very-high-flying craft lay down what otherwise looks to be be a normal white contrail behind them as they fly, only instead of evaporating within the two-minutes-tops usual time period, the trails stay, expand, and expand, and flatten out in a sheet over the sky, and it's done in a cross-hatch pattern, a half-dozen north-south lines crossed by three or four east-west ones in a neat tick-tack-toe, and I get to watch this as we used to over in Surprise Valley in '99 and 2000, and wonder what the heck is going on, and the day becomes hazy. This morning includes a normal cloudy overcast under the unruffled sheet of gauze. Folks may call me paranoid if they like. But there's no fear involved here. Just great curiosity.
Anyway, we begin this hazy white day sans water. All I did yesterday was take a 4-minute shower. Didn't wash a dish or water a plant. And we were out of water at 5 p.m. I primed the pump around 9 and thought we had it, but it lost its prime again minutes later. Very unsanitary around here. Can't wait to live in a house with reliable, potable water again. The creek is roaring after weeks of rain and snow, so it's ironic.
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Folks over at Selfwinding and Patteran keep going on about Ian McEwan, so I guess it's time for me to see what all the fuss is about. I read an article about him the the NYTimes Online. I suppose If I'm going to mess about with John Banville (I'm reading Eclipse), I really ought to check into Mr. McEwan's work. I'm slow with novels.
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So we're off to Lakeview, OR, to get the dogs their rabies shots at the Good Veterinarian's office there. As opposed to the Bad Veterinarians nearby, who would let a leg-broke llama lie there in pain and refuse to even stop by ("What do you expect us to do?") even though they were on the next ranch over removing bull testicles that whole week, and Dr. Ferry the Lakeview vet drove 60 miles over the mountains to put a cast on her. Bless him. So he has my business forever. And that of several others.
The county has moved to require licenses for all dogs beginning in June or July, so I'd better get my pair up-to-date in the vaccine department.
Here's today's cat picture:
This came to me in an email from a friend who forgot to include the URL, and a quick Google hasn't turned it up. I was told the photo illustrated an article about a film being shot at a monastery. [ADDENDUM: "MONASTERY NEWS: MONASTERY IN THE MOVIES A film that was released earlier this year has many scenes filed at the monastery. The IMAX nature film INDIA: KINGDOM OF THE TIGERS was shot both in northern India and at the Monastery of All Saints of North America (New Ostrog) near Vancouver, B.C.
This movie was dedicated to the preservation of the nearly extinct Bengal Tiger. Since India had outlawed trained tigers, the only Bengals available to the film company were two that are maintained in Canada especially for the movie industry. The director scouted for a suitable location to continue his filming with the trained cats, and felt that the monastery grounds and its surrounding reminded him of the foothills of the Himalayas. If any of our readers happen to see this movie, most of the "tiger only" action shots were filmed here on our monastery grounds. You will be able to identify several of the scenes because of the presence of willow trees or snowberry bushes in the background. Scenes with the tigers swimming across waterways were also filmed here. A photo of Vladikas Lazar and Varlaam with the tigers is found on our Photo Album page 2."]
Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful First of April.
10:44:06 AM 
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