The bears are hiding out. It isn't just me, all the tours are seeing fewer bears. Everything has leafed out so they are harder to see, and the dandelions they were eating on the roadside have gone to seed and blown away. So now that I've had my third no-bear day, it isn't worth worrying about anymore.
The lupine has replaced the dandelions, there are buttercups, wild roses, and fireweed blooming, along with flowers I don't know. In town, the cottonwood (not the same variety as in Verde Valley) seeds are blowing around like a snow flurry and gathering in little drifts and piles.
The snow on the mountains is mainly in shaded places like north slopes. The solstice is upon us, so the sun will begin seeking out those nooks and crannies. We are having more cloudy days with highs in the low sixties and occasional light rain, mostly at night. This is the weather we expected and want.
Peggie's lettuce patch is providing us with needed greens, and the squash have started to grow.
TWTWS...we got a strange TV cable bill. First, it was addressed to Wm and Don Thomas. Inside were two identical bills, one for each of us. The first dollar amount ($40.00)is for something not quite clear, then 8-9 lines of zeroes and a total of $90 something. Well, I only taught fifth grade math, but that doesn't add up. There is a phone number to call in Haines, but our phones don't get to make that call. Whaddayagonnado?
But still TWTWS...I saw Stan Selmer on the street one day. He is the supervisor at AP&T who I spoke to in the waiting room at the clinic when I had to get my drug test. So I arranged for Don and I to tour the hydroelectric plant in the canyon outside town. It has to be next week because this week he has to attend two funerals that are scheduled for the same time at two different churches.
Peggie and I both have the day off today. So we get to have fun, right after we wash dishes, vacuum, straighten, do laundry, write in the blog, figure out when Becky's birthday is and the myriad other chores that don't get done on work days.
And I have to be Don's second set of hands to replace the microwave he took out and fixed. Good thing he has the right tools. Margie, don't buy Don the five sided wrench, Karin already did! In a variety of sizes, of course.