October 9, 2009. Artemas, Pa. Firsts.

This is a wonderful world.  Today at the farm was installed  a system for satellite Internet, just as we have at the ranch.  For the first time ever, we are connected to the real world, right from the Hill House basement.  I am excited.

Also today was installed a cap for Ken's truck.  Now we look very spiffy.  A few months ago, we decided that if we were going to be transporting good Angus beef to Texas and Mississippi we should keep our belongings secured, so we arranged to install a cap in Hagerstown.  At the end of July Ken and I stopped by to look at these caps.  Two different places in Hagerstown carried these caps, made by two different manufactures.  Both seemed fine, but the folks at the first place showed no interest in either us or the caps, but the second place told us all about how they are used and even took us out to the yard to see half a dozen, including their own trucks.  Of course we ordered one from them.   It was made to match the paint of the truck so it took time.  We booked October 9 as the day for installation.

Now this is a complicated organization.  We left the apartment in Chevy Chase at seven o'clock a.m., stopped at Enterprise Car rental in Hagerstown at eight, and then drove both vehicles to the cap installation, which was to take five hours.  We drove to the farm, in order to meet the satellite installation at one.  By four thirty, we got the call to pick up the truck.  Fortunately the installer for the satellite was just finishing.  After an hours drive to pick up the truck and return the rental car, then drive back to the farm, our day had been full of first events.

Now we have a new cap on the truck and a new connection to the world in the basement at the farm.  Two firsts in one day, and all done in the proper time slots.  I am pleased.