Home without the "net" nor phone...

We're in town this evening, briefly to get caught up
on Internet.

We have moved home BUT we have no phone up there. Our
land line is still out and Cell phones don't work. It
is frustrating because our insurance people keep
leaving messages, but of course we don't get them!

Tomorrow we shall come to town and Robert can
call the insurance adjuster and I shall lambast
Qwest. Our neighbors have phones, but our line
was cut by the firemen because the line was hanging
so low over the road. We have reported our
phone outage, but I think they think it is all
fixed. Vernon has no phone either. He didn't
even have power until late in the day today.

Robyn was here over the weekend and she and
Robert made louvres for the case that covers
the electronics for the solar system. The
system is up and running! YES!

I find I'm still pretty shook up over all
this and have discovered that those of us
who are now living up here share the same
lethargy...just can't get moving and the
brain doesn't seem to work the way it
should!

I can't wait for it to snow, a little..not
a lot. Just enough to cover up the black!

I still haven't been able to make myself
go up the back road to see the worst of it.
I have been told that it is all dead up
there. The trees are just black sticks
and everything else is black, too. I
have enough black around the house. I
don't need to see more.

Our house faces the road and all of that
is still green. From our bedroom out
over the patio it is black. The
fire came down to the patio and the
back side of the house. Fortunately,
that side of the house is cement block or
we would have lost the house, too.