Dupont:
Read on line the other day that chronic cough could be allergies, so for the next 3 days I took our little yellow pills - and had 3 cough free nights. This am I forgot the pill and been coughing all afternoon. Took it about 4 pm but to no avail. Better put an alert on the phone! It was really nice not to cough all night!

Yard finally got mowed today! But, as I was getting awake this am, a friend informed me the electric was off at Beaver!!!! Sent a pic of dismantled meter! R got on the phone to HydroOne and after a long chat with a helpful woman: it has been off since 22 May after a storm broke the mast holding the overhead wire. R went to work. I phoned my fave electrician for advice; we talked about a bunch of things and I hope to get to their home on Sat to see the welding - sculptures etc, He and wife concocted at the School of fine arts in the last two weeks!

Then I phoned a friend for advice re electrician: He phoned back with a name and number. Connecting with the electrician, he can come and do repair in a day or two, will get the necessary permission and inform Hydro to replace meter! Possible this could happen by Friday??? We, of course will spend a part of our time there emptying the rotting food out of the freezer! They were too busy restoring Hydro to others to notify me!

And my neighbour, who took pics around the house - to send me - apparently did not notice the Meter sitting on the roof of our trash garage. She walks past almost daily! Even so, it was too late! Four different friends/neighbours contributed to solving this!

Do some people live boring lives?

Soon I will de-clutter this house by gathering things to go to Beaver - for the recycling there and thrift shops. And some distilled water in case there is not enough there, and no electric.

The hearibg aids have been a major headache - no instruction booklet. The audiologist blithered a whole bunch of stuff, totally incomprehensible to my addled brain and even R did not catch enough. We have muddled through with tremendous frustration, horrible frustration from the background noise in my ears and a period when they did not function at all and I messaged the office and had instructions that got it working again. Today, I checked my credit card and they have put the charge through----NO WAY! we are supposed to have two months to try them out. We go on Friday and R will have to talk as I am furious.   

The iphone and computer continue to find new ways to plague me.