Quiet Hump

I was up pretty early again. Big T was up at an ungodly hour causing a ruckus and woke the rest of the house up at five. He was worrying on about something and apparently didn’t sleep all night. He’s been running long hours lately, he shouldn’t keep up this frantic pace. I didn’t make any breakfast because today was my day to go fish with the Mayor. It was a later start than I’m used to for fishing since I met him at eight after scarfing down a McBreakfast. We ripped out towards Haileybury first to get some minnows and then he fired up the new motor on his boat. It started straight away and ran consistently. What a difference from our last adventure in June. We fooled in a lot of time hunting for the shoal that Theordore Complete and I trolled yesterday. I had to download an app to find it. His small motor wouldn’t start so we listed for a bit and enjoyed amazing conditions.

We didn’t get any action so tried a couple other spots. It was a beautiful day on the lake. I tried getting some underwater footage with the Chef’s GoPro3, we’ll see what it looked like later. Close to eleven the wind was shoving us parallel to the bank and so we just floated along trying some different tactics. Nary a bite though, probably too nice of weather. When he’d had his fill we fired the motor up and ripped back toward the marina. We closed up the boat and I stopped briefly at their place to see KMJH and her offspring. She was there cause their dog had a gross poop in their basement and it was airing out. I went home and Mother had some lunch ready for me. She’d made a pot of soup, cheesy broccoli. I fired up a couple of the pogos that STL Sister left behind to clear space in the freezer. Add in a slice of that zucchini cheese loaf and that made a nice meal.

After lunch I didn’t have anything pressing so I took some me time. I went down to my room and started looking over the deals at Canadian Tire. Shortly after I started that I fell asleep. I passed out for over an hour, probably closer to two hours. When I woke up I set about posting the half dozen Musings you probably just enjoyed. If you didn’t then what are you doing, get into it! It was around five that I emerged from my stupor and stumbled up to the kitchen. Mother was making hamburgers at Big T’s request. She also had some kind of cabbage and kale salad mixed up. She sent me back into the depths to get the leftover macaroni salad and with that we had a meal. I had a second burger and added some macaroni salad to it to freak my parents out.

After dinner the Big T requested that I drive him to pickup eggs and then get his pickup from the other farm. Somehow those two manage to spread vehicles all over the place with no thought on how to get them. He had to fix some teeth on the combine header after that so Titi and I went to keep him company. I put on the latest episode of the Word for him and he eventually wrapped that job up. We then hauled several mounds of straw from his previous unplugging out into the field to clean up the yard. There was a lovely sunset to be seen as we were wrapping up that task.

As we were cleaning things up and getting stuff put away, Mother came running out to the barn yelling about a tornado warning. I guess one was issued for North of us. There was an angry cloud bank rolling in with thunderheads piling up high into the heavens. To the North heat lightning rippled through the underbelly of the clouds with the odd blast escaping out to attack the Earth below. I took some short videos and managed to capture on such strike. We couldn’t hear much for thunder which was unusual. It seemed a storm had set in. It went around us, no rain for the cover crop Big T spread on Monday.

We went back in the house after some storm watching and there wasn’t much left of the day, the sun had gone down and this so did I. I finished up some computing and ordered some Amazon stuff and found sleep.
Edit: a F4 tornado did touch down North of us and destroyed a sheep barn, lots of acres of crop and some small sheds in its 50m path. The rain came so hard that some traffic accidents and washouts also changed lives. We didn’t have a drop here.