Name this book. Satellite condition. Mattresses and kitchen utensils.

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In chapter 16, Jack's wife is in the kitchen getting ready to make breakfast. She tells her son, who is sitting in the living room watching TV, that they will be going into town today to get a couple of sleds because a winter storm is coming in. When he doesn't answer her with an excited response to the snow comment, she goes to see what he's watching that has got him so entranced. When she looks at the television she sees what looks like what you see in a lava lamp, only it's on TV. She watches it for a few minutes and she too becomes fascinated, but snaps out of it and asks why he's got the sound turned off. His answer is that he doesn't. She turns the volume up and changes the channel and is shocked at how loud it is, so she changes it back to the channel it was on, only to see that the lava lamp channel is no longer on there. On her way out of the room she tells him he needs to get ready and he asks why. She says again that they're going into town. He asks why and she tells him, "to get a couple of sleds because it's going to snow". He says, "It's going to snow? When?" She then starts teasing him about having so much wax in his ears that they could grow potatoes. Anyway, he gets to the kitchen and notices a crow sitting on the window sill watching them. Eventually Jack comes downstairs and sees the crow and he and the crow have a staring contest. Jack taps on the window but the crow keeps staring. Then suddenly the crow pecks the window right in front of Jack, which startles him and he falls backward onto his butt. The crow then just flies away. Later, his wife looks out the window to see that there's a crow high up in the sky circling the farm overhead and wonders if it's the same crow that was in the window.

Because of the storm we had last week there was a lot of snow which turned into ice on the roof. Eventually, like by Monday night, a portion of that ice slid off the roof into the satellite dish, which caused us to lose the connection. We planned on calling Dish Network the next day if I couldn't get it realigned. By the time I got up the next morning, another slab of ice slid off the roof into the dish and made it unusable. A technician is scheduled to come out tomorrow and look at it. He will have to put-up another dish, and here's why... (as always, click for a larger view)

Luckily for us, a few of the evening shows that we like are on local channels (ABC, NBC, FOX, PBS). Hopefully by early tomorrow afternoon we can watch other channels. We've also been watching VHS and DVD movies, which we have a lot of each, thank goodness.

That's about the most excitement we've had. Someone that wanted a couple of bunkbed mattresses (bunkies) that we offered on FreeCycle, came and got them. They said the roads, "Weren't too bad". But then someone who was going to come and get some miscellaneous kitchen utensils turned around when she got to "the Four Mile Dip", rather than risk getting stuck, so we need to set-up a meeting place now.

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