No snow! Yippee!

Wednesday started with voices at our gate yelling for “March.” I was making breakfast and still in my bare feet, so Tom ran out to see what was happening. Elizabeth and Ulni where there, with Elizabeth’s dog Blackie. Apparently a worker had been heading up the trail next to her house, and when Blackie barked at him, he chopped Blackie’s nose with a machete. Blackie had what looked like a big bite taken out of the side of his nose, with blood still spurting out. I didn’t know what to do, besides dump some hydrogen peroxide on it to clean it out, and to tell them to try to keep the flies away. It’s a pretty nasty cut, and his eye is drooping like some of the muscles in his face have been cut. He’s a really good dog, and he never snapped or even really cried while we fussed over him. Tom and I went to see how he was doing after lunch, and found that Elizabeth had very wisely hobbled his front feet together so he couldn’t scratch at it so the bleeding would stop. She had also poured a little bit of kerosene on the wound both to disinfect it and to keep the bugs away, which would never have occurred to me, but which makes sense given the situation. Blackie was very calmly sitting in the shade, and again let us fuss over him without any complaints. Hopefully the wound won’t get infected.

I spent the morning updating this blog, while Tom cleared more land. He has a good start on a burn pile, although he assures me that we’ll just burn it and not delay the burning until we have a party. Plans for the rest of the day are to go to San Antonio to post this and to buy a hose, since the camper is now too far away from the faucet for the hose we already have to reach. Tom may run into San Ignacio tomorrow if we need anything, and if not we may just work around the property for another day. Noah had said that it’s possible we’ll close by the end of the week, but we don’t know what’s up with that since we haven’t talked to him in a couple of days, although we assume that if there were any major problems either he or the selling agent would drive out here to tell us. So, that’s all the news for now, and I’ll post again when something interesting happens and we can get on line.

And for all of you who are wondering, yes, we’ve checked the upstate NY weather reports. And yes, we’re very glad we’re here, and you’re welcome to curse us since we’re feeling no pain in 80 degrees and sunshine! Life is MUCH easier when it’s warm and sunny.

Sorry…