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CI: The problem with less rain water in our county is that our resevoirs are only about one-third full, so we need much more rain.
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And no one to steal more water from. ..., ... Oh o, I feel an invasion of Mexico coming on!

Anticipating the worst, trucks left Houston, to help Atlanta restore power, this morning.

Wishing the best for my friends and othes living in metro-Atlanta.

I get a third day of work. Yippee? Had to go back in yesterday, because the helper was getting overwhelmed with work orders. A range had shorted and they wanted me to handle it. My solution was simple: get it out of there and bring in one that works. The lead guy can see about fixing it when he gets back. The hard part was navigating the cluttered apartment to get the stoves out and in. I am pretty certain the one shorted, due to grease getting inside the works. Likely, the resident has never cleaned it.

I cleaned my stove before I moved in. Do wash the stove. When it's needing it. Due to the increasing amount of stress I deal with from day to day. I have this tendency to feel I've not a care for anything really. I do clean up, well pick up some but probably not as I should. Mean my place isn't horribly cluttered it's alright for an extremely depressed individual. When I had my own apartment at 18 I couldn't stand anything to be out of place. Though with my job at the time I became extremely depressed quit it found another job that was worse with stress. Working nights, that 9-10, 9-2 shift. But I by then with that job was living with my parents. I was already depressed not giving a **** about hardly anything. Hell I never really have throughout my life. Surprised if I was. I have been easily taken advantage of my entire life. Not realizing it. But really I don't care. All that matters is that one day I'll pass on because I gave into my best friend suicide. My comforter.

:smile: you'll do alright.

The TV weather person said she feels almost guilty, because our weather will get progressively nicer, beginning this afternoon. All I can say is, I had the option to live in the frozen country, but came back to this area of my own volition. I welcome it and I revel in it. - My own terror is the tropical storms and tornadoes and living under sixty foot pine trees.

I lived under several 40 foot pines when I at my house at the Mass/NH border. After year one, 2 of 6 biggest were taken down. After one of those big ice and wind snowstorms, I viewed them as dangerous potentially destructive weeds. furthermore, it opened up nearby my garden spot to all kinds of sunlight. Trouble was all the residual acidity the fallen pine needles contributed to the soil.

I tried growing vegetables my first year here, but it wasn't worth it. I would take out all of my pines, but there are 19 of them. I don't have the kind of money to do that.

Nor did I. What an expense taking 2 trees down.

Speaking of cutting down trees, the bald cypress in the front yard looks to be dead, for about ten feet at the top. For twelve years it grew like a weed. It was showing stress from the drought a few years ago. Perhaps it was ready to give up, with a push from the extreme cold it experienced this winter. Its the only such tree I ever had, so I am speculating. I will see what it does, as the warm weather takes a hold.

As Rocky gets used to our lifestyle and as he nears his second birthday, he is settling down, as much as a rowdy animal like that can. He spends more and more time outside, paying attention to the neighborhood and squirrels and the pesky gray cat that invades the back yard. We still wrestle over his squeaky toys a few times each day. One thing I like about this dog is the way he stands in front of you and barks at you, until you figure out what he is trying to communicate. None of the female dogs I've had were like that.

What I would do to have a decent cup of coffee each morning.

If you're a senior, go to McDonalds and order the senior coffee. It's good coffee, better than Starbucks, and they charge me only .64c.

In attempt to humorous.

Going to help my son in law look over his rental townhouse this morning. The contractor's bid is too high and he wants suggestions how to cut it back some. I don't want any of the work. It's too far from home, I am too old, I probably don't have all the right equipment, etc. But I don't mind helping if I can.

It was almost ninety degrees in Corpus Christi, yesterday. At least the lower part of Texas is transitioning to spring. We always get a last cold spell around Easter. So there are likely to be some dips between here and there.

I spent a lot of my growing up years in California, in Fresno. That's in the heart of the great drought, I believe. It's hard to imagine it drier than it already was. But, the canals used to provide plenty of water. I assume the source has dried these days.

I'm a little in the dark about some of that local CA geography but wasn't Fresno where veggies and produce came from?

The whole central valley including parts of Salinas still produce our fruits and veggies. Gilroy is famous for their garlic and Castroville is the artichoke capital of California.

Asparagus is good.

Oh yeah...I recall the smell now during the harvest time...Gilroy is gah-lic. I recall from my trip through the Napa-Sonoma wine country tour a few decades ago.

When are you going to revisit our area? Let me know when you plan to come.