10/30/09 POWER down!!

So here I am sitting in the dark by candle light. I just finished my left over fried rice and chow mein from dinner in Forks. I am drinking a little Scotch and Powering Down. Why? Well fortunately and maybe a little unfortunately I am forced too. The power is out for the third time this month in Kalaloch. I don’t know about you but I love it when the power goes out. It forces you to relax.

Back to the Scotch, it warms the soul, I am drinking a MacAllan Cask strength scotch from the highlands. A sip warms your body all the way down to your toes.

Isn’t the power out a blessing?

First you need Candlelight, you know how a flame no matter how small or big relaxes the mind. There is something about the color and magic of a flame. The rhythm it flickers across your eyes must slow the heart rate down. The shadows it moves across your apartment and the different shades of light it shows.

Second, you are more in tune to the noises, hear in Kalaloch there are a lot of different noises if you listen. you have a steady roar of waves on the ocean beach, you can always hear them. It’s a low continuous roar, it doesn’t seem to change much. I believe it sounds the same on a sunny day or a stormy night but it’s beautiful! It like the background of a picture, you notice it if you want too.

Third, the wind, I guess the winds tonight could get up to around 50 mph, they have already taken down a few trees on the roads. But, the wind makes a different noise then the waves, it’s a little higher pitched, sometimes a little whistling mixed in, you can hear the fluttering of the leaves move from far to closer, amazing. If you listen really close you can here the trees creek and crackle, a thump now and then from a broken branch or maybe a whole tree fell.

When I look out the window, I can see sheets of rain moving across the ground, though now it’s hard to see cause it’s pitch black outside, So the rain is easy to hear because my apartment has a metal roof so I can hear the quick rhythm move across the ceiling, it gets quicker then slower, moves left then right and gets louder and softer always changing.

Another sip of scotch ☺

I decided to add John Denver to this soundtrack I am listening too. (Technology (with the power out), here I am typing on a computer while listening to music from it, I am glad it is helping me capture this night) John Denver is some great stuff to listen too with his stories of the outdoors, I love John!

Well to move on, today I spent the day in the wind and rain doing firearm qualifications. I was a little nervous, I was shooting with all the permanent Rangers, plus we don’t shoot very often, if you know what I mean. The permanent Rangers here have all been really cool and helpful, they don’t do anything to make me feel nervous, but I can’t help feeling it, this is there year round job and they see many seasonals (that’s me) come and go. You feel like a rookie showing up for the first day of practice, you want to show them what you got and blend in with the chemistry. The shooting went well, I passed all my qualification on the first try. I do enjoy shooting, I hope to own a couple guns so I can practice in the off time, it would also be nice to get into hunting. We all left the range really wet but hey you never know what the situation will be like when an unfortunate time comes when you have to un-holster your weapon.

I got back to the apartment around 7:30 pm, (you see we are required to do a night shoot when its dark, the qualifications is a all day event with at least 3 different weapons) I quickly put on a comfortable pair of sweats and through on some hot water for a french press coffee. I needed energy! Janelle is coming tomorrow and I have not had anytime to clean up. Now I know what your thinking, but it’s not true. I don’t clean up because I am worried about Janelle’s response, no, I clean up because if I don’t Janelle will spend most of her time here cleaning instead of relaxing. Her last visit she did not move from the couch for maybe 8 hours straight, it consisted of mostly naps and reading. It makes me feel real good when I see her relaxed. I remember another time this summer when I had borrowed Ernies Wii (it’s for activity style video games). Janelle spent the WHOLE day playing the drums on rock band, she’s really good. I would take a break from work to say hi and she would be sweating. She wouldn’t stop playing she would just talked to me while playing. That was fun, if I can attach a video I will, I recorded her playing on my phone, good stuff!

Anyways, I was cleaning the apartment, I have laundry still wet in the dryer waiting for power and I am about 75% done with the cleaning, though I need power for the vacuum too. I could not resist this chance to relax when the power went out. I hope it’s out tomorrow too so I can share this storm with Janelle.

Another sip of Scotch, mmmm. By the way, if you are a Scotch drinker you have to have a Scotch glass, it tastes better! It look better! It feels better! Trust me.

I wish I could record the sounds here... amazing, you all should come visit! Maybe for Thanksgiving we can have another power out, well after the Turkey’s cooked!

OK well I better finish up, I going to try and clean a few more things by candlelight and then I am going to read until I fall asleep. God Bless!

AND Yeh for my Uncle John, he is doing much better! John! get up here and show me how to hunt!

Good Night ALL!