windthread

Because the first electrician never called back and when i re-called,  said i was "on the list",  i called the Other electrician yesterday.  Left a message.    The not having electricity in half the house wasn't really a problem,  the heavy duty extension cord took over well enough,  but there are all those images that flash through a brain of trailer fires from faulty wiring.  And this is an OLD trailer…1960's model  and dragged around through who knows what before it ever got here,  and then all that WIND that batters it year after year;  Electrical things make me nervous.

Anyway…a call from the Second this morning,  he was on his way.  Ok!!!!  and when he got here,  i said just park there,  on side of road but he said no,  needed to bring his truck in,  and i said it's ok and he said No.  Wanted to bring his truck in and i hooked up Tay and opened the big gate.  He said not in this neighborhood.  OK.   He's "from here" and there's no discussion.  Ok.  I remind self that i am naive.   I ask and he is ok with dogs so i let Tay loose and she pants and drools over him as he works.  It's hot.  He tries a few things.  Does a test.  Nope.  A few more things.  Nope and then some more and Yes.  Ok.  And i ask how much and he says $30 and i say that's not enough ….and though i had rehearsed myself before he got here about "talking too much",  i say WHY? and he says…

gesturing with his head,  "It's Nice here".  

It's Nice here.   It's Nice here.

i gave him extra because he came so quickly,  because he didn't mind Tay,  because really,  what he did was worth a LOT to me,  even more than the extra.  But really,  that thing about Peace of Mind.

Everytime something goes wrong with the plumbing or especially the electricity,  i expect the person to say "There's Nothing i can do."  Expect it to be   The End.   It's such an old frail frame of a home.  It would not be surprising.

But here we have it.   "It's Nice here".    Ok.    Metta.  May I be safe.  

And while he works,  his phone rings, and i listen in,  …. No,  he can't do something on Monday because he needs to go to Albuquerque for a colonoscopy and he adds that if that isn't enough well, that's as far as he will go.  No more.

so if anyone can,  light a candle for Grisly Electric that his test goes well and is enough.  May he be Safe.  May he be healthy.

Just after he left there came a Magnificant Electrical Front….THUNDER  beyond THUNDER,  heat lightning and vertical direct strikes,  Just Magnificant

and it passed and  i went Out

now the electric is on i can get the Swamp cooler going.  I hauled the little ladder back.  Took off the panel and looked.  Ok.

it hooks into this and i forget how.  Maybe i can remember.

just a little after 12 oclock you can see the tubing break.  This would be someone's teeth.  Perhaps a Goat because that's all that's back there and that tall.  Rabbits are are too short.

 

interested Observers ….retaining information for their next lives?

and i asked him if he knew anyone who fixes lamps.  He said no.  No one does that anymore but he looked over and said it's a nice lamp, isn't it and i said yes and he,  his name is Beetle,  he said that either of the hardwares in town would have the part i needed.  He said just go slow and take it apart and put the new part in and then go backwards putting it back together.  How he said it makes me think i can do it.