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Time to get back to blogging.  Nice to hear from chime 2.  At least part of the info update was nice.  Could be a possibility of coal in the stockings for the chime adults.  It is nice to here what's going on though.
  On the Powers front we have been busy with a wide variety of things.  Once the saw horses were stashed we went full bore into bank building until the weather shut us down.  With the exception of one operators license being suspended and the daily flogging of the Trainer, the work went well. At some point the gate opener broke and was waiting to be replaced which was just completed today.  There has been a mass movement of storage buildings and our inventory has been wiped out.  This is good except for the fact that certain unnamed persons have the glory of "I told you so".  What me worry? Naa.  Lisa and Mike and family were down for the wrekend and we all had a great time but it sure is quite tonight.  We had shreeking winds last nite.  According to the radio we were to expect 70-80mph wind with 90 mph gusts.  It felt like they were being conservative.  The power finally went off about 7:45 so everybody went to bed with candles.  Thankfully the power came back on about 10 pm so it wasn't too bad.  The bad news was outside when we got up.  The two 20' sections of visqueen had gone in the previous storm but now one of the 40' sections was torn loose from the top of the bank and in a tangle below.  I had attached it with a 2x4 to the railroad ties of the raised bed for the strawberries. I screwed down boards from one side to the RR ties on the other side to anchor as well.  Well the wind ripped the front bankside RR ties loose and sent them and the plastic clear over to the access road past the side of the excavation.  I was thankfull we had moved the water truck off the hill because that's exactly where they landed. Pretty unbelieveable force.  Most of the day was  slime time in the mud removing sheeting ,stakes, and boards and readjusting hay bales.  All that stuff that took hours to set up in the beginning.  Retirement has never looked so bad.  I think I may just go get a real job.  Yeh right!