Awake: 5:31am Temp 51 sleep 5+59 overcast overnight @ Nicktown.
Early morning, Ray & I Skype using text messages until Kathy wakes up; then we switch to audio & video.
K & I attend 8:00 am Mass & then join the KK for an hr; today’s hot topic: none. All subjects were lukewarm.
Back @ the coach, I Skype Ray again to finish up our earlier conversation; signals were still fairly good.
I was nearly finished with breakfast when the doorbell rang; it’s John B. He pays a visit to check on my groundhog adventures of yesterday. We chatted briefly & then John insisted that I finish breakfast while he walks down to the lower field & looks for evidence: dead or alive?
I meet John as he returns to our bus; he tells me there are no clues of activity & the fact is that Mr. or Mrs. Groundhog could very well stay in his/her underground penthouse for days without resurfacing. Groundhog expert John B. has to leave now so I will see him tomorrow during KK time.
Call my Brother Don in Ebensburg; “you’re lucky to have reached me” he says. “We just dug through the phone line & the electrical line, so we have no inside phone or electricity.” “Good thing you & I have our cell phone then” I tell Don.
Don, plus (2) helpers are in the process of digging down (5) ft along the outside walls of their home; moisture & mildew in the basement prompted this excavation. Realizing a lot of this manual labor may tire my brother out, I suggest he & Josie take Sunday evening off & visit us in Nicktown. My brother liked this idea.
Mid afternoon, our near neighbor Chuck visits while looking for one of his dogs, Sissy; she’s been missing all morning & that’s not like her. We tell Chuck that we haven’t seen Sissy but will keep a good eye open. Meanwhile, Chuck shows us his lower leg; it was really swelled up from his mishap on Wednesday. He’s guilty of not following strict instructions from his nurse, Kathy, & right there on the spot, Kathy scolded Chuck for being too stubborn. Chuck says he learned his lesson & will shape up.
Dinner: Tuna & noodle casserole with broccoli.
We watch the O’Reilly Factor; then the News Hour with Jim Learer.
DVR movie: “The China Syndrome” with Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, etc. Heart pounding drama about attempted cover-up of accident @ California nuclear plant is as much a probe of television news as it is a story of nuclear power….& it scores bull’s-eye on both fronts. There is no music score; story tension propels film by itself, along with solid performers by Fonda as TV reporter, Douglas (who also produced film) as radical cameraman, & especially Lemmon as dedicated plant exec. 1979. This movie & story were GREAT! Perhaps it influenced our country too well & scared the general public into voting “no more Nuclear Plants.”
High temp=72 Lights out: 11:26pm
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