We had an elongated “monsoon”
season this year. It rained about 4 weeks longer than usual. And it
stayed cloudy most of that time. This led to precious little time
available to run the Internet modem, since the batteries weren't
getting a direct sunlight charge during this rainy spell. So we had
to find things to do other than surf!
Play cards
Scrape the burnt food from the
kitchen wood stove top
Read a book
Increase the winter woodpile
Pump water into the holding
tank from the well
Butcher a chicken for dinner
Collect juniper berries
Paint the wood trim
Bake an extra loaf of bread
Bring the extra loaf of bread
to a neighbor
Take the dog on a hike
Take a luxurious bath
Write another chapter in your
novel
Make whoopee
Dust behind the pictures
Mend socks
Make a kitchen planter box for
herbs
Decide what you want to plant
in next year's garden
Daydream
Sunbathe
Air out the pillows and
blankets
You know what – some times I
just like to spend time with my husband and our son, talking about the
day, talking about current events or the latest upgrade for Linux – not
text messaging, not talking in quick spurts on a cell phone, not
emailing each other... talking face to face having a conversation. Sometimes we forget what
time it is and wind up talking late into the night. Sometimes in the
middle of a conversation we decide to cook up something unusual
(saueeed ground chicken meat marinated in ginger, mustard, sugar, leeks
and vinegar this week) and have a feed.
Truth is, there's a lot you can do
besides going to the mall or watching TV or playing video games on a
cloudy day. Maybe I'll be lucky and it will be cloudy tomorrow.
time. This led to precious little time
available to run the Internet modem, since the batteries weren't
getting a direct sunlight charge during this rainy spell. So we had
to find things to do other than surf!