360 Feet and Drilling...

The well drillers are now about 80 feet deeper than the well was before. It went VERY slow this morning as they had hit some really hard rock, but it seems to have gone better this afternoon.

Forry made a quick trip into Moses Lake to get the oil changed on the toad while I stayed home and played with beads. I had bought a set of hair clips from a Navajo lady last spring that I really liked, so decided to try and make some more. I had to have Forry drill holes in the package of clips that I bought. I'd thought about making some for the Mennonite Country Auction Craft Booth, but have quickly realized that I would need a whole lot more crimp beads and a bigger variety of beads in my stash! Just picking up a few things here and there does not give you enough of anything to make more than one or two!

I Don't Understand Why It's Not Really Monday...!

Because it feels like a Monday and I feel just like I do the day after the weekend. I checked and the consensus on Facebook is (2 votes) that you can have a blue Monday on a Tuesday...

When we got home yesterday afternoon, we went to check to see if there had been any progress on the well. The pump was pulled and it and the pipe and the screen were all laying (lying?) on the ground beside the wellhead. There was evidence of cement having been mixed nearby. This morning the well driller called and said that it had been late Monday afternoon when the cement truck that was scheduled for noon finally arrived. (They poured cement down the well to "fill" the sand pocket they had stopped at the last time they deepened it.) He said he was afraid the cement hadn't had enough time to cure overnight and it would be still too "green" to drill through today. So maybe tomorrow we'll find out if there will be enough water "down there!"

These are a couple of the pictures we took on Friday as we drove west over the North Cascades Highway:

This route across the northern part of the state is closed in the winter time as there is too much snow to keep it open. As you can see in the first picture, there is still snow in those there mountains! The second picture is of a tourist who is trying to dig out some souvenir snow from a very dirty snowbank along the highway...