Monday, May 19, 2014

The Sound of Silence

A while back I was talkin' (and complainin' some) about th' noise at our location here at Catarina.  Well, a couple days ago, th' crew extinguished th' "flare."  "Hotdog."  Wow, sounds good.  Then th' crew began to leave, pick up by pick up.  Now, I figured we'd start gettin' some real "truck" traffic.  HA, "Not."  we have been gettin' maybe 5 to 6 trucks a day (that's 24 hrs) and quiet . . . I can actually hear some of th' birds chirpin'. (HA, thought my hearin' aids were goin' bad there for a while).

Th' bad part is, no one tells you if they're goin' to be haulin' product off or not, so, night shift (that's me) has to stay up all night (watchin' re-runs) waitin' for that H2O or 1287 truck that might show up.  Now, I'm not complainin' mind ya, but it's almost too quiet.  One extreme to another.

More critters also I think.  Saw a couple Coyotes last night and tonight more mice/rats and some scorpions.  We're usin' Tomcat for th' mice so don't see a lot of them but th' rats like it too.  Matter of fact, they'll take a whole log of it off.  Wonder if it's actually doin' anything to 'em??  Maybe some rat traps are in order.  I seem to remember back in my railroadin' days, we used a product called "Blue Death."  Hmm, wonder if that's still available?

Got a call today about another gate over at Dilley.  Guess I'll find out on Monday what that's all about.

Later . . .

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