Oops!

August 14 – It was nippy out this morning!  The sun was out but the air was cool.  Once we finished our cleaning duties and raked our couple of sites, I planned to make Bill a batch of his flax/sun dried tomato crackers.  Problem!  The oven wouldn’t light.  The burners wouldn’t light.  WE WERE OUT OF PROPANE!  I could not believe we had two empty tanks.  We knew we finished one and thought the other was a full tank – NOT!

 

Look at the right and it's 2 birds, wings at the top
and bottom, what's that?

While Bill was out talking and raking I was reading at the table and watching the birds.  Today we had 5 hummers racing around and once in a while 3 would light to eat.  They were really violent today and as I was trying to get a photo one was minding his own business and eating and 1 was either totally attacking another or was raping it.  Until now they only flew at each other.  Maybe it was some kind of mating ritual.

 

After lunch we made a trip into Stuart’s Draft to the Ace Hardware and filled both tanks.  We stopped at a thrift shop which was only because we saw a sign for a bakery.  The bakery was closed so we didn’t get any delicious Mennonite bakery items but I picked up a few bargains at the thrift store.

Once we installed the tanks we both went to the laundry room and did one load while we both did email.  It’s nice when no one is there and you have the place to yourself.  By the time we got back it was time to put my pickle steaks on for dinner.  Couldn’t have done that either without the gas.  I made us a snack of goat cheese with honey on celery.  Yum!  Went well with the last of my Roscato.

 

We did our usual loop walk and then walked over to Loop B.  Fred and Linda were out so we sat and talked until dark.  We hadn’t taken a flashlight so it’s not a good idea to take the path through the woods so we went on the road.  Bill brought in the bird feeder and we settled in for the night.  Word was it was going to get cold, so before I went to bed I set up one of the electric heaters on the dresser and turned it on and shut the doors off to keep us warm for the night.