Squirrel Confounder

Squirrels have been emptying our bird feeder in less than three hours.
At the suggestion of a Facebook friend, I installed a piece of 5 inch diameter galvanized sheet metal stove pipe on the post that supports our bird feeder.
So far, so good.
No squirrels have made it to the feeder since I installed it yesterday, but to be fair, I should mention that I haven't seen any birds in the feeder either.

Obituary

After posting a song by Mary Chapin Carpenter, I came across an obituary that said that she died yesterday of a possible heart attack.
My first thought was, "Damn, that's spooky.  I love Carpenter, but hadn't thought of her in a couple years.  Then I post one of her songs on the day she dies?"
Turns out it was a false alarm. 
Carpenter is alive and well and has a concert planned for Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheater in July.
The obituary was on a link called https://www.wikiobits.com/ where you are invited to write obits for famous people, or you can write one for yourself.

No Particular Reason

Needed a little pick-me-up this morning, and settled on this...

Sort of a country music salute to Zydeco.  Hard to stay grouchy with that going on.

I ain't that bad

My yard is looking pretty bad, with down limbs and twigs everywhere, but in my defense,  it has been too wet to get out and pick them up.  On my last attempt at mowing I got the mower stuck and left some ruts that still need to be filled in.
Even so, I never let my lawn get this bad...

Nasty

What's the worst tasting thing you ever put in your mouth - something that ought to have been good, but wasn't?
My list includes -

• Milk from cows that had been eating bitterweed.
• Sour milk.
• Sour Chocolate milk - even worse!

But my all-time champ may surprise you - its orange juice!

I had stopped at an Exxon station to fill up on the way to work, and picked up a small bottle of orange juice. 

I left the station and pulled into the rush-hour traffic on loop 610. I opened the bottle and took a big slug - the O J had spoiled !  I somehow got off the freeway without causing an accident, but you can only spit so many times, and I didn't have anything to wash the taste away.

I survived the experience, but from then on, if I bought anything to drink on the road, it was bottled water.

Breaker Conclusion

Our electrical problem that started Tuesday morning was finally fixed late yesterday afternoon.  

The electrician we hired to find the problem worked much of Thursday, then brought a helper and they worked all day Friday and most of Saturday before he declared everything fixed.  

Most of that time was spent crawling around the attic looking for a bad connection.  They finally found it, and I can only say that it's one of God's minor miracles that our house hasn't burned down sometime in the last 20 years!

They found a splice with wires twisted together and wrapped with green electrical tape.  3M makes a green electrical tape for color coded installations, but I have never owned any.  The splice had been arcing and the tape was charred, almost burned through.

The electrician took a picture with his phone, and I would have liked to post it here, but he forgot to send it to me.  Just believe me when I say it was scary.

I've been trying to figure out who would have done that and why.  I can only guess that when the contractors installed the microwave they did a temporary connection, then forgot to come back and do it right.

T & A

It's a long, complicated story, but our electrical problem I mentioned yesterday hasn't been fixed yet - there has been some progress, and it should be fixed later today.

While we're waiting, here's Honey's favorite song from  Chorus Line...