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Sep. 22nd, 2005 07:40 pmWe've spent a few hours outside tonight, yardworking -- the heat's almost bearable once the sun goes down, but it doesn't just dissipate like in St. Nowhere.
Most of the yardwork was preventative maintenance in case we get serious stormage up this way, which I'm skeptical about. But, it does keep mum calm to be Doing Something. So we took down the canopy and bagged it, then carried that, the table, the chairs, the grill, the hammock stand (ahahaha, sans hammock because Sam's bony ass broke it) and a few flowerpots into the garage. We also took in the flower box and trash bin out front, then Lucky and I re-dug the drainage channel at the bottom of the driveway and swept all the debris away.
In my head, I wrote a big thinky post comparing hurricane preparedness to earthquake preparedness; I wanted to talk about how you can't run away from an earthquake and how blindly going towards the next big inland city to get away from a storm doesn't really work in a functional way.
But I'm too tired to write it, particularly considering all the arguments that would come with it. So, mleh. If you argue with the above, I reserve the right to ignore you. Consider yourself warned.
There's a storm coming. We won't get much more than high wind and rain here, but you can't get bread or gasoline for love or money in Austin right now, so it's a good thing we have the emergency supplies laid in anyway. Lucky's brothers in north Houston are safe and we're hoping Mama Ticky out in Bellaire is; she's on a hill and she has a preparedness kit too. Lucky's oldest brother will be checking on her and is prepared to take her away if things start to look dire, since the middle brother is a dick who is going to get a loud earful from me about familial duty if I ever see him again.
He's been a dick ever since her stay in the hospital when he insisted he was too busy to drive five miles to see her, but the utter dickness of Brother Dicky is only now showing itself. He told Mama Ticky not to bother asking him to come get her; his house is full up with people from work who tried to drive out and couldn't get more than a few miles.
Because you know, one octogenarian woman takes up so much space. Especially when she's your mother.
Dick.
Most of the yardwork was preventative maintenance in case we get serious stormage up this way, which I'm skeptical about. But, it does keep mum calm to be Doing Something. So we took down the canopy and bagged it, then carried that, the table, the chairs, the grill, the hammock stand (ahahaha, sans hammock because Sam's bony ass broke it) and a few flowerpots into the garage. We also took in the flower box and trash bin out front, then Lucky and I re-dug the drainage channel at the bottom of the driveway and swept all the debris away.
In my head, I wrote a big thinky post comparing hurricane preparedness to earthquake preparedness; I wanted to talk about how you can't run away from an earthquake and how blindly going towards the next big inland city to get away from a storm doesn't really work in a functional way.
But I'm too tired to write it, particularly considering all the arguments that would come with it. So, mleh. If you argue with the above, I reserve the right to ignore you. Consider yourself warned.
There's a storm coming. We won't get much more than high wind and rain here, but you can't get bread or gasoline for love or money in Austin right now, so it's a good thing we have the emergency supplies laid in anyway. Lucky's brothers in north Houston are safe and we're hoping Mama Ticky out in Bellaire is; she's on a hill and she has a preparedness kit too. Lucky's oldest brother will be checking on her and is prepared to take her away if things start to look dire, since the middle brother is a dick who is going to get a loud earful from me about familial duty if I ever see him again.
He's been a dick ever since her stay in the hospital when he insisted he was too busy to drive five miles to see her, but the utter dickness of Brother Dicky is only now showing itself. He told Mama Ticky not to bother asking him to come get her; his house is full up with people from work who tried to drive out and couldn't get more than a few miles.
Because you know, one octogenarian woman takes up so much space. Especially when she's your mother.
Dick.
