Tom pours a little water on Kobae during his dinner to cool him off though he doesn't look like he appreciates it much. I'm going to tell you about my Friday and since I've never figured out how to make paragraph breaks on Blogger, if it can even be done, I'll do it with pictures. As guests depart down the driveway to spend the day at Arches the power in the whole lodge goes out. Tom resets it, it goes out, reset, out, reset.......for an hour. Tom walks through the rooms to see if anything out of the ordinary is going on. As he opens the door to the bunk bed room he's hit with a blast of warm soggy air. There use to be a sink in the bunk bed room. When it was removed the water lines were left in there. When Kristin was in there cleaning three days ago she pushed the bunk bed up against them and the hot water one turned on and had been spraying hot water for three days. The carpet is soaked, the bottom bed, and the floor is all under water. Tom turns it off and figures that is his power problem. Tom then hears the White-tailed antelope squirrels sounding the alarm. Everywhere he looks they are all sounding the alarm that a predator is about and they are looking at Tom. That makes no sense. Tom has been feeding them for years. Tom hears a noise under one of the porch chairs and the Spotted skunk emerges to spray. Tom jumps out of the way just in time. All the doors to the lodge are open to air out the water leak and the skunk smell goes everywhere within.
Tom calls Johnny across the river and he comes over, crawls under the lodge and says "there ain't no wires that got soaked by water." So, that isn't the problem. Tom calls Lance in town who is standing in as the solar guy while Ken is out of town. Lance comes out and has some suggestions and things to try. He ask for some tools. Tom walks over to the garage and hears something inside banging on the door. When Tom opens the garage door a big Rock squirrel runs out. Looking inside the garage where the Rock squirrel has been locked up for three days, life vests are on the floor, gasoline and turpentine are spilled on the floor along with paint cans, parts of vehicles, screws, washers, and an assortment of other items.
Lance and Tom think they've found the problem and after an hour and some change of no shut off Lance heads for Moab. Fifteen minutes after he leaves the power goes out. All night long Tom goes outside to reset the power until about 2am. At 2am it won't come back on no matter what Tom does and the guest are without air conditioning. Tom turns off every breaker in the lodge and then begins turning them back on until he finds the one that seems to consistently make the power go out. The one to the main fridge.
Nervous that the meat may be spoiling in the refrigerator Tom is deciding what to do when he hears a scratching noise on a front porch pole and recognizes his and Linny's friend Kitty, the ring tail cat. Coming down the pole behind her are four smaller ring tails. Kitty has babies and lots of them. They are everywhere chasing each other around, across the roof, up and down the poles, across the roof upside down and drinking out of the water bowl on the front porch. Eight hot dogs, a pack of turkey, and a pack of lunch meat all disappear to Kitty and her kids. It's been a very long day and Tom hasn't slept for quite some time but Kitty and hers are so funny. Tom tries to video but the light is not bright enough. At 4:30am Kitty and hers all come back down the pole and head down to the river.
Tom calls Johnny across the river and he comes over, crawls under the lodge and says "there ain't no wires that got soaked by water." So, that isn't the problem. Tom calls Lance in town who is standing in as the solar guy while Ken is out of town. Lance comes out and has some suggestions and things to try. He ask for some tools. Tom walks over to the garage and hears something inside banging on the door. When Tom opens the garage door a big Rock squirrel runs out. Looking inside the garage where the Rock squirrel has been locked up for three days, life vests are on the floor, gasoline and turpentine are spilled on the floor along with paint cans, parts of vehicles, screws, washers, and an assortment of other items. 
Lance and Tom think they've found the problem and after an hour and some change of no shut off Lance heads for Moab. Fifteen minutes after he leaves the power goes out. All night long Tom goes outside to reset the power until about 2am. At 2am it won't come back on no matter what Tom does and the guest are without air conditioning. Tom turns off every breaker in the lodge and then begins turning them back on until he finds the one that seems to consistently make the power go out. The one to the main fridge. 
Nervous that the meat may be spoiling in the refrigerator Tom is deciding what to do when he hears a scratching noise on a front porch pole and recognizes his and Linny's friend Kitty, the ring tail cat. Coming down the pole behind her are four smaller ring tails. Kitty has babies and lots of them. They are everywhere chasing each other around, across the roof, up and down the poles, across the roof upside down and drinking out of the water bowl on the front porch. Eight hot dogs, a pack of turkey, and a pack of lunch meat all disappear to Kitty and her kids. It's been a very long day and Tom hasn't slept for quite some time but Kitty and hers are so funny. Tom tries to video but the light is not bright enough. At 4:30am Kitty and hers all come back down the pole and head down to the river. 
2 comments:
Oh no! Not a fun way to spend a day and night.
Was it the shut-off? Sounds like multiple problems, but interesting animal action too.
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