Taking stock

More Rita-blogging! Let’s see if we’re ready for the storm which may or may not come this far inland and may or may not hit us with tropical and/or hurricane force winds and may or may not rain buckets. (opens garage) Out here we have: 5 cases of water 4 loads of dirty laundry 1 […]

Damn, this traffic jam

I keep reading news reports about the traffic jams as folks flee Houston. We’re over 100 miles away and our highway was bumper to bumper this morning. They think 10,000 folks may seek shelter here (which seems like a small number, since houston has something like 5 million people if you consider the whole area). […]

Overheard

Little person: “Can I have a moon pie?” ** Grown-up: “Those are for the hurricane, dear.” ** (if you could call him that)