Well, given what a talented operative he is it’s a conclusion that that Interesting News the Friday before Hallowe’en might lead one to suspect…hmmm; Means, Motive, Opportunity

and More…It was a dark and stormy night, a dark and rainy day. I left; traffic was heavy, but moving pretty fast; stopped off in Fairfield, then back onto 80,

still rainy, traffic still heavy, moving pretty fast.

I pulled off an hour later for a pee and a bite to eat in the rain at Heather Glen, then the hill, wet all the way, traffic thinning slightly.

East to Reno, Wadsworth whose Smoke Shop’s pumps were all ‘out of order’ so on to the outskirts of Fernley and back

to SR 447, blissfully empty all the way to the Gerlach, where my box was stuffed with hysterical Repuppetlican fear-mongering propaganda.

Then, in last splats of rain, to the muddy Smoke Creek,

4:04 at the gate

without, it turned out, keys, necessitating a tense return to town to pluck them from the still-open p.o. box.

4:45 again at the gate [not shown] and got things pretty much unloaded and put away by dark.

Woke before dawn, clear light, rain through the night;

muddy walk, still under the weather

but a beautiful day nonetheless.

Next came a day of persistent rain…mid-morning Willey, long-anticipated, appears to look over my various ACECs, for which he has, as anticipated, practical solutions, plus news from town and Tales of the Burnocracy.

Still somewhat illin’ I stay in…fill in my ballot, do watercolors, sneeze etc.

until it clears off enough for a walk in chill winds, last light, then quiet.

Having finally figured out a temporary fix for the toilet so the pump doesn’t clank on and off every ten minutes I slept way late Monday, leaving just time enough to survey the wet land,

[too wet to burn]

breakfast on the east porch before the daily watercolors and

make a noon run to town to mail in the mail ins.

Anyway, I’m sure America will all be just SO great soon…

out here, anyway.

And, given the news as this goes out, what happens next Tuesday will determine whether Mr. Comey will be Special Envoy to the Kremlin or Chief of Security at the Dollar Store in Arco, Idaho, depending.

Not exactly subtle, n’cest pas?

 

M