Well, it's not going to kill you

AH the faint smell of chlorine in the air

We just hit step whatever of cleaning the water system.  Chlorine in the tank, turn on all the taps in the house until you smell chlorine, turn them off and wait 24 hours.  Fun and games here people.  But at least we should have a healthy water system when we're done.

The tenants are all taking it in stride except for one who is a bit of a hypochondriac to begin with and "can't be around chlorine !!!!!!".  I gave her one of my gardening masks to get her through.

What a wonderful excuse not to do things I should be doing today - the laundry, washing the pots and pans that don't go in the dishwasher...   wait I think I hear my Kindle calling.

Hanging at Starbuck's

Free Wi-Fi which is really nice when you once again have no power at home.  MUST CHARGE MY KINDLE! Very interesting place to hang,  Ran into a friend also powerless working on her book,  apparently her editor is knocking on her door.  If you want a really good read check out her book "Into the Forest" by Jean Hegland.  It will scare the hell out of you if you're worried about the future.

Other wise it's a cool place to overhear conversations.  A group of 70 something men came in and where talking about Rachel Maddow - What?  But then again it is Healdsburg, liberal bastion of the North County.

Job interview in the corner behind be.  College kids on Spring break talking about upcoming formal dances in their OMG twitter short hand.  Am I the only person in the world that doesn't speak twitter?  It took me 2 days to figure out IMHO meant in my humble opinion.

#, @ what does it all mean and do I really care?

Why is it taking so fricking long for my Kindle to charge?  Must get back to book...  OMG nothing worse than book withdrawal.

It other things the water project is moving along the tank is being power washed (gas) as we speak, next step is refill the tank, shock the system, let it sit for a day, open every tap on the property, drain the tank, refill and retest.  Wow.  At some point in the process a UV filter will be installed so we don't have to use chlorine on a regular basis.

Dropped our water consultant, looking for a new one.  Larry specifically said "we don't want to use chlorine on a regular basis" several times.  Funny the bid came back for a chlorine based system... Duh.

Larry continues to float on pain pills which is good it keeps him from doing much so maybe his rib will have a chance to heal before he does something else to his body.  I swear one of these days I'm going to duct tape him to his chair.

Now the 70 somethings are discussing WWII.  I'm tempted to go join their conversation.  One of my uncles was killed, my dad lied about his age to get in when he was 16.  He ended up serving in submarines including the silent running in the Sea of Japan.  For years he would never talk about it, finally as my sisters and I got older we were able to drag some information out of him but not much before he died.  He was only 51.  Wow I'm 7 years older than my Dad was when he died!

and a plague of locusts...

Yes I'm expecting them any minute now if they don't drown first, which given our weather of late it is a distinct possibility.  2 inches of rain in 10 hours on Saturday night and it's still raining with more to come for the next 10 days.  But at least we have power which we didn't for 2 1/2 days so it's not all bad.

Since we last talked Larry managed to fall and crack a rib so he's lying on the couch drugged out of his head on pain pills.  The County declared one of our rentals substandard housing because there was a leak in the roof the the tenant said he would patch - with witnesses- and never did.  So the leak leaked a lot which in turn bubbled the paint on the wall and softened the sheetrock.  Thanks tenant.  Then they moved out with no notice leaving this mess behind them expecting to be reimbursed for 2 months rent.  Bah I say!

At least there is progress on the e.coli solving front. All is going well the next step is to drain the 8,000 gallon water tank, pressure wash it, refill the tank and shock the system.  Keep your fingers crossed that at the end of all that we pass the water test.  We're also going to install a UV filter but that doesn't need to be done before we shock the system.  

My mantra has become "this too shall pass".

Not so fun and games

Things are not great here on Mill Creek Road.  We discovered along with several of our neighbors that our water system has been infected by e.coli.  Yes that e.coli.  Which means we can't sell the 30 acres parcel we're trying to sell until it's fixed $. We have a county certified consultant $$ coming tomorrow to tell us what we need to do to remedy the problem more $$$.

However the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and subsequent tsunami damage in Hawaii and about 5 hours up the Coast from us in Cresent City puts things in a bit more perspective.  

Yes we have a problem, a big problem but things could be so much worse.

Now go hug someone you love.