Monday, June 21, 2010

Ranch Drama? SNAFU, of course...

Well, life in the desert is never boring. Although, sometimes I get the impression that people are wont to make their own live-action soap operas out of thin air.  I had applied for a job at the Ranch as a their bookkeeper, but apparently only CPAs qualify (I'd be interested to find out how many of the past bookkeepers had a certificate, but we all know how that would turn out).  Right now the Treasurer's wife is doing the bookkeeping (she is a certified public accountant, and a very savvy lady to boot) on a volunteer basis, and they probably won't hire a replacement until she can't or won't do it any longer. C'est la vie. Eso es la vida.

Our friends Phil and Regina are also in trouble for trying to help their neighbors get water.  Imagine that, trying to buy water in the desert -- how silly! They paid for their troubles, but The Powers That Be are still setting their sights.  No good deed goes unpunished...

On Saturday we did a field check for our neighbor and are writing her up an estimate.  She already has plenty of solar panels, but some unscrupulous (I assume) person told her that they were all broken.  Solar panel don't just stop working all of a sudden unless there is serious, visible damage!  The panels were all FINE, and put out plenty of power.  We will draw up a plan for mounting and wiring them for her, and we hope that she will be pleased with our work.  We certainly will work very hard to get her set up with all the power she needs in a neat and efficient way!

We had some more rain on Friday, and it threatened last night, but the thunderhead skirted us to the west.  I'll have to check John Wells' blog to see if he got any rain off that storm.  It did give us a beautiful photo op, and I'll post the pics of the distant rain at sunset soon! I forgot to bring my camera with me today. 

Thanks for reading!


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