Short and Sweet

I was told by my wife that people had been wondering what happened to me. I am alive and well, but most of the time I am without internet. For the past two weeks the internet has been down at my house. I have been driving up to the main house twice a day to sit out on the porch and get internet signal. This weekend, however, we had a big storm that lasted most of saturday and all day sunday. The power was knocked out several times at the house. We had a lightning strike just outside our house, and by that I mean it touched down in the front yard. The entire house lit up, and the flash and thunder arrived at the same time. I watch pecan trees fold over across the road, and when I got up this morning I found that one of our 10,000 gallong water tanks had fallen off its tower. It burst on the ground, and left the tower a birds nest of twisted metal. As for my internet source at the main house, it was roasted by th lightning as well. My last retreat is a house down the road from me that still has internet signal. I am sitting a porch in a mans front yard, sending emails and typing this blog. I can imagine there wont be as much to read on here (my battery doesn't last long, and there are no power outlets out here), but it should be a welcome rest for the eyes. I will try and post each week if I can. The rice is coming up well, although the corn is doing even better. I just found out this morning that the farmer who planted the corn last year just realized that he may have used roundup ready corn. This would explain why the roundup we sprayed two weeks ago is not working. I said as much after the first week, but I was told that the formulations in South Africa tend to work slower. Well, it looks like I am going to need a new strategy, one that hopefully doesn't involve me chopping 75 acres of corn by hand. I'm practicing my spirituals just in case. Until next week.