( yard sailing report )

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Oh yeah, speaking of tab weaving: ( crafts update )

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Did I mention we got flooded out last week? We got flooded out last week. We had about an inch of water in the basement (which has never flooded before - we're up on top of a hill) and three small bridges near our house flooded over with major damage; two are still closed, which is really screwing up the traffic patterns. Also somebody drowned in the friendly little creek that goes right below our house, which ): Best I can figure, we had about half of our average yearly rainfall in about three weeks, most of it in steady downpours. We just finished putting in new flooring in the basement on Thursday.

Dear Earth: Can you please wait at least until January before we get a blizzard? Thanks.

On the upside, I realized that lots of closed roads means space to roller-skate. On the downside, I have learned that while I can still skate in a straight line indefinitely, and turn pretty well, I have forgotten stopping, and when your first stretch of skating is down a 10° grade into a construction site... well let's just say I'm glad I remembered where the ditch was mud rather than sharp rocks.

Flooded basement, and particularly the fact that the tenant down there is living in what the Internet diagnoses as Level 2 Squalor, has really kicked me forward into cleaning up and cleaning out, too. So I'm enjoying that, and pondering my relationship to clutter.

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Oh! And I am clearing out my desk/office area today. So to join the "save the post office" effort, anyone in the US who wants 'something I found in my desk area' - might be a postcard, might not - mailed to them can PM me a mailing address.