Farewell, My Subaru by Doug Fine

Author:Doug Fine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345504609
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

I thought my act was working, though I was not having fun. And this trapeze performance was just for the solar panel array to power the dang pump. I hadn’t even reached the house yet.

I tried to convince myself that hanging from a windmill thirty feet above the ground in a primordial windstorm is a great way to get some perspective, not just on your property, but on your life. And I could see most of both—from the view and from the whole “flash before my eyes” movie I was watching inside my head. The wind nearly carried me away toward Texas twice as Jimmy O’ and I tried to get the three one-hundred-twenty-five-watt solar panels attached to the windmill frame. The good news is that if we did manage to tighten the necessary bolts, the panels would likely stay in place for good: anything that could endure these gusts wasn’t going anywhere, ever.

Forty-eight inches away, Jimmy O’ was as relaxed as if we were inside playing cards. He was actually whistling. I couldn’t tell if this was because he had spent his waking hours swinging from windmills for most of the past two decades, or because he had chained himself to the frame. Myself, I was “free climbing.” I hadn’t known that chains were part of the organic life uniform. In fact, this is one of the things I don’t understand about natural selection in general: how any organisms survive their first critical Darwinian mistake.

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