I started a fire in the stove. There was some water in a pitcher, so I poured it into the coffee pot and got some coffee started on the stove.”
–Dan Arnold (Bear Creek)
Beep, beep, no that’s not the Road Runner, that’s good mornin’ to yuh in tech terms. Coffee’s ready, Pard, I heard the beep from the coffee maker. If’n I’d made it in the old perkolater there wouldn’t be a beep. Beep, everything has a beep. The oven is heated–beep, beep, beep. The car door is left open–beep, beep, beep. You left the keys in the car–beep, beep, beep. Why, even some vehicles make beep, beep, beep, when they back up. Add to that the dings and dongs, the pings, buzzes, whistles, and gongs and we have a whole technological symphony goin’.
Let me take a swallow an’ I’ll tell yuh where I’m goin’ with this. Yuh tell me, Pard. Why is it that the smoke alarm, when the batteries are dyin’, only beeps at the early hours of the mornin’? They never seem to go out durin’ the day, but only at the wee hours of the mornin’, then it’s BEEP! A few seconds later BEEP! An’ at the time, it’s that loud and that annoyin’. I think it must be another one of those technological conspiracies.
I’m sure glad the ol’ song goes, “When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more…”. I’d sure rather the Lord come on a trumpet blast than with a beeper, or a beepin’ sound. There will be the trumpet call of God, accordin’ to ol’ Paul, not beep, beep, beep.
Not very profound this mornin’, but let’s jist enjoy our coffee hopin’ that nothin’ else beeps around here. But…I did hear some beepin’ the other day as there’s some construction goin’ on ’round here. One thing, if’n yuh fall out of the saddle ’cause yuh didn’t check yur cinch and fall on yur noggin’ it sure enough won’t beep. It’ll be more like a thud and a rattle as the marbles get all spewed about.
Yuh be havin’ a good day an’ week, an’ if’n yuh hear some beepin’ sound check yur pacemaker; it may be out of whack and goin’ bonkers, errr I mean beepers.
Vaya con Dios.