Awake: 6:53am Temp 55 sleep 6+42 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
Kathy makes her special sourdough pancake breakfast with all the trimmings. Oh, so good!
Later morning, we survey our property for trees to save & those to cut down. Then I make a few more calls to Colorado for someone to cut our tall grass on our lot there.
@ 2:00pm, we attend the scheduled Town Meeting @ the church hall. Again, some (40) people gathered. Father Job begins with a long & drawn out statement of how opposed he is to having alcohol @ our homecoming picnic this year. He was quite vocal & animated while pacing back & forth among the crowd. His performance was the best I’ve ever witnessed from him & he was very, very serious on this subject; no matter how much we would defend our position, he was not going to back down.
For the most part, the crowd listened carefully; probably like me. His speech gave the feeling that we were already doomed & defeated no matter what we would say or how we would say it. Slowly, one by one, the underdogs began to growl; at times you could hear a pin drop; other times the atmosphere was so tightly wound, I feared for an implosion any second. A few eloquent speakers from the crowd reminded Father several times that we were listening to him but he was not listening to us.
Ever so slowly, Father began to hear some of the better ideas from the crowd that might have a slim chance of getting him to agree to sign the liquor license permitting beer to be served @ the picnic. After about (2) hrs of this sort of bartering & bargaining, the good Father “finally” compromised & gave in to “most likely” signing the license for beer which is what the crowd hoped for. Wow! Kathy had no idea that this small town of Nicktown could possibly be so exciting.
Back @ the bus, Kathy’s good friend Diane F. from Anchorage calls. They had not chatted for (6) months or better. They caught each other up on their respective family’s activities including the upcoming marriage of Bill & Diane’s youngest child, Bill, in Sept.
Dinner: Leftover chicken & broccoli casserole, mixed salad & whole wheat mini buns.
Later, we call Nick in Seattle & yak for over a hr. Jerry was sleeping for awhile but when he woke up, he let us know he was around.
High temp=72 Lights out: 12:20am
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