Let's try again.

I spent the day working with the telephone company, again, trying to fix our telephone line. Since last weekend our internet connection has been so bad we could hardly use the internet. I called last week because there was so much noise on the line we couldn't use the phone to talk on. Today when I called the person on the other end could finally hear the noise and sent a technician out with some test gear. He found and intermittent ground somewhere on the line and decided to run another temporary line to replace the one that had been spliced twice to fix where the goats had chewed through it. I had just walked the most direct route through the woods from the box that the line ties in to the phone network at to the house in anticipation of him having to do that so I knew we could make it. When we ran the first temporary line a little more then a month ago the snow was still over waist deep so we followed my snowmobile trail. Todays route was about half as long as the first time. Hopefully this will keep us on line until they get here this summer to put in the new permanent line.