Bright Spots

There are times in life, even on the darkest days, you have to look for the bright spots.  Down in the barn yesterday, rain was still falling from dark skies when I noticed that there were actual shadows on the walls of the milking room.  That could only mean one thing.  This shot was taken from the doorway.  Talk about a bright spot!

Plumber Guy showed up right on time.  It's fortunate that he called when he was leaving Placerville because he was headed down to Plymouth to get here, about 30-plus miles out of his way.  Fair Play is almost exactly 17 miles southeast of P'ville and 17 miles northeast of Plymouth.  I'm not sure how far it is to Plymouth from P'ville, but it's not hard to do the math.  I gave him easy directions (which he followed!) and he was here in 20 minutes.

Gas fireplaces have some sort of nonflammable fake logs to disperse the flames.  I thought it was pretty clever of Plumber Guy to use his phone to take a picture of the placement before disassembling that jigsaw puzzle of logs, laying the pieces out just so.  He found and fixed the leaking pipe, then carefully put the whole mess back together using the photo.  And then he found the thermocouple had gone kerflooey.  Crum, a dark cloud.  No, he didn't have one with him.  Double dark.  No, there was no identification as to what brand of fireplace it was.  I told him where and when we'd bought it.  He made a call and found they knew what it was and that they had the necessary part.  A bright spot!  PG said he'd pick up the part on his way home and that he'd be back today before time for me to go milk.  Double bright!

The rain held off for the rest of the day, which was a good thing because the rack on the porch was nearly empty.  After PG left, Bessie Anne and I went out to bring three wagon loads of firewood up to the house.  It's in the low 30s this morning and predicted to get colder in the next few days, down into the 20s.

The day ended as it had begun, with a bright spot.  I've learned to take 'em when they come.

It was a good day.