Seeing In The Dark

 AND ....... we are back to winter!!  We should be lounging out in the warm sunshine this time of year, but alas (BIG SIGH) we are back to the wet stuff.  Not only is it wet, but it's HARD.  Snow down to 2000 feet  and hailing like crazy here.  I didn't look at the thermometer ... I didn't want to know.

Locked inside once again, I picked up, reorganized and moved things from one spot to another.  I'm sure you know the drill.  I need to keep this, but really don't have a place for it.  What will happen is I will need it next week and I won't be able to find it!

What I DID discover, was all that budget work I did?  The copies have the wrong year noted at the top.  Our Keeper of the Books is now sick, as I once was.  She promised to fix it, but it seems her computer and the accounting system is the Wicked Sister of the West to my Infernal Machine.  She spent hours on it before forgetting what I REALLY asked for.

When I got to the lodge ... all gussied up in my blue jacket and gray skirt with a scarf tied around my neck like a noose ... there was a frantic note attached to a bundle of papers.  The numbers were NOT what they should be.  So much for the spiel I had written for the presentation of the budget at the meeting.  I cancelled it all.

I spent the next hour pouring over them one by one ... in the dark.  Why?  Because all I had were my sun glasses.  Somehow my reading glasses got left on the counter.  I hate it when that happens.  Seventy five minutes later ... TA DAH!!!  I found the three mistakes causing all the havoc.  We can fix them today.  Time for DINNER!

This is Law Enforcement Night.  Our good friend the Sheriff hauls out several of his deputies to cook for us.  It's always fabulous because he does things like cut up piles of onions and add them to the scalloped potatoes.  He also makes up a batch of his special sauce that makes steak taste better than steak.

Two hundred and nine Elks went through the line as I prayed there would be food left over.  I'm the ticket taker (incognito in my dark glasses), so I eat last.  There was also a nice salad that they forgot to put out on the table.  When I asked about it, a frenzy of men went running for the fridge.  Oops ... they forgot all about it.  I never did see it because I had to scarf down as much food as I could before the meeting started.  There was this much left over.  The Elks don't skimp on dinner.

Off with their heads!!!  I mean off to the meeting we went!!  Wasn't I surprised when the Boss asked for the budget report.  No no ... remember just an hour ago I told you we didn't have it ready?  I stood up, said WE HAVE A BUDGET, and clapped my hands.  I got a rousing ovation.  That was it ... I sat back down.  I'll save my speech for the next meeting when we vote on it.

Driving home in the dark with dark glasses was an experience.  I have to admit though ... my experimental eyes (the result of cataract surgery and needing to see student dive computers underwater) that are usually blinded by the light ... could see amazingly well because I wasn't blinded by the light!  I may have to use that trick again.

Speaking of blinded by the light ... on Monday another eclipse will appear.  Not as big as this one from last year because we are not in the sightline.  Sadly however, all my RV friends who took the cruise south to BE in the sightline may be disappointed.  It's supposed to be stormy with full cloud cover over there, while sunny and visible here.  Let's hope the weather guessers are wrong.

I'm recouping once again from a late night at the lodge while water falls from the sky.  Thirty miles up the road it's snowing and will continue all day.  Maybe ... just MAYBE ... the forecast for sunny and 80 degrees for the next nine days will come to fruition!!  I'm not holding my breath!