June 27, 2005

So muggy here this morning that the sun can't break through. We're told it's going to be one of those days where a body diaper for any outside activities would be proper wearing apparel because no matter how old you are or what you might be doing it is a sure thing that you will wet yourself.

Today is also a good day for me to possibly lose a few extra pounds. Clear liquids including coffee till 3:00 p.m. then nothing until 6:00. That is when I'm to start drinking the stuff. 4 liters that must be finished off by or before 8:30. After that I can go back to the clear liquid diet. Now tell me, who the heck would want to suck in more liquids after consuming 4 liters in less that 2 1/2 hours?

Oh yeah, the results of all the drinking may pretty well take the meager crap from my mind too, so don't go looking for any emails after 8:30 or there about. I've been told the reason for any success that I might have accomplished over the years was mainly do to the fact I've always been full of it. This is going to be a good test to see if that assumption has been a correct one.

The septic tank pumper has still not made it to this job. We haven't seen hide nor hair of anyone and the main man hasn't replied to any of our mournful pleas left on his answering machine. I can only hope that I begin running clear pretty quickly or at least before the tank runs over. If it should, the clear stuff shouldn't be that harmful to the environment and surly the clear stuff couldn't contain any sort of stink.

We haven't given up hope on the man yet and plan to give him till around 9:30 before we begin searching for a different pumper. I'm sure before I go for the procedure, I'll need to wash the lake bathing water residue from my body as well as any other accumulation that might have been missed or built up since the last dip in the lake.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.~Thich Nhat Hanh