• Power went out around 6:00 p.m.
• NINE power poles taken out by high winds, possibly a tornado.
• Ann McGrath said it was a tornado.
• I drove by the area where the poles were down and it was about one mile stretch of damage.
• Customers kept coming in, even though we had no power.
• They seemed to fail to understand that we had no power either and sometimes got “persistent”.
• We locked the doors at 7:00 and put up a sign.
• Power was returned around 10:00 p.m.
• We did not make the news.
• This morning I had to fix the internet because the ATM is hooked up to the net and there’s no land line there anymore.
• I had to get the cash register fixed. There was a corrupted file in the system and Ruby’s Help Desk was s l o w   a s   H E L L .  We are up and running though.
• Changed the fish tank filter.

^^^ Want this! ^^^

We are sitting in the dark and have had no power since 7:00. I have been told that 9 power poles were knocked down by a possible tornado.

As I sit here typing this, the power returned. Three hours down and one hour sitting in the dark reading my iPad. If I had started this earlier, would the power have returned earlier? Makes you wonder.

We went on a ride yesterday in the Jeep. Drove up the Pecos River Canyon and stopped to visit Huie at the Tererro General Store. Erin was her usual engaging self and asked him about all the animal mounts in his store, especially the mountain lion mounted on a rock in a rest position. Huie thought she was a cutie.

• It was hard to ride!
• It was hard to drive!
• It was hard to walk!

• Erin comes home today.
• She stayed with the others because Sunday was Father’s Day.
• Banking for Nina and I after breakfast at Charlie’s.
• I’ll take the bike to breakfast since Nina’s taking her car to to some store shopping at WallyWorld.
• I may even take the long way home. That’s a 100 mile trip.
• Still not sure about that though.
• Boycott KFC!
• I gave got to stop watching the news while doing this.

Around 9:00 i headed out to a tent event at Harley Davidson in Santa Fe. Food and drink and racing and ballon tossing on motorcycles. A custom painted Fat Bob is being raffled off with the drawing being held at the Rough Rider’s Rally in Las Vegas next month. It’s a POW/MIA themed bike. I hope I win.

Yesterday I was a volunteer driver for the director of the city museum and an Ameri-Corp photographer. I took them to the ghost town (Los Fuertes), the mining ruins in Pecos, the Pecos National Monument, and the valley churches. This trip was designed to get the county’s sites into the city’s photo database to be used for tourism and other advertising venues.

They were blown away by the places shown and the scenery that the county is blessed with. Canyons and hidden corners of the county that a visitor would be hard pressed to find. I expected to receive enthusiasm for the day’s show and tell, but the photographer was just amazed. He kept saying that “This is even better than the last place!”

It was a good day to be me.