Deep Dish or Thin and Crispy

I can see why movies like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were made. IT IS FUN TO DESTROY STUFF WITH A CHAINSAW! This is not my first chainsaw, but it never seems to get boring cutting stuff up while using gas powered toys, er I mean tools.

I recently decided to shave my head(again) and come to realize that the reason for hair is to stop the sweat from pouring into your eyes while you work in 100+ degree weather with close to 100% humidity(plenty of water still sitting around from the storm) All this sweat pours down my face, chest and arms. This makes small debris adhere to my skin easily. Because of the coloring of the pine trees I am cutting up, the small particles of bark and saw dust sticking to my skin looks just like the pepper seasoning that you find in pizza parlors. It looks like someone sprinkled me with the dried pepper sprinkles (when I was younger I called them the scab sprinkles)
Being that I have been outside almost all day for the past few days, i think I am more along the lines of a crispy crust than a deep dish right now.

STFU - St. Fu the patron saint of Ninja's

My skills have been honed from the recent disasters. My powers have certainly doubled, if not tripled. I am the 40CC CHAINSAW NINJA!

Lovely Hurricane Rita has decided that one week of electrical service is too much. Rita forced down a few more trees to try and isolate my family from the comforts of running water, lights, AIR CONDITIONING and the coffee pot! Rita also felt that close to 3 feet of water down my road would be our demise!

But the Chainsaw Ninja is prepared for all she could throw at us. Downed trees were no match for my well oiled chain of destruction! 30 gallons of gas and generator running brought back the basic comforts for my family. An aluminum canoe provides us safe transport from the island that my home was becoming. The family truckster was parked on the high ground allowing us to travel for supplies once we paddled to it.


Enough of that stuff...

We are without power again because a few trees took out our new power lines down my street. We also have a few feet of water still in my street. It got to within about 25 feet of my house this time, the highest it has been since we moved there about 10 years ago. It will be a while for them to restore power because of the high water still. No real damage to anything, just inconvience of no power etc.

Rain rain go away....

Hey, this weekend Hurricane Rita has decided to swing on by.. I'll hopefully be back.

It's just the dawning of our love

The past few weeks have been tiring and difficult. Physically and emotionally, the aftermath of Katrina has taken a toll on all parts of my life. There is one part though that has changed in a way I didn't really expect. There has only been one day since we evacuated that my wife and I did not fcuk. I am not talking about the 10 minute quickies, I mean 40 - 60 minute sessions. Even when we were sharing a room with the kids in the hotel, we somehow were able to have a lot of fun. With 10 people staying in my house, sleeping on inflateable mattresses, we with no air conditioning, we thoroughly enjoyed each others company. Only the one day when our youngest child slept with us that we just slept.

Being me, I tend to try and analyze things to satisfy my quest for understanding. At first I was thinking it was the thrill of being caught or atleast being over-heard by those with us. But, we have been caught before and it didn't stop us. ( many years ago we were staying at her parent's house and her father walked right in the bedroom while we were at it and started to talk to us - we didn't stop) Then I was thinking it was some stress relief because of our situation. Not too many natural things can relax you as an orgasm or two.

I think it is something more. During all this time, I felt closer to my wife than I had in years. Not the sex part, but the feel of being happy to still be with her. To still feel alive when I look at her. I was no longer focusing on little pet peaves, I was seeing her for the beauty and the person I fell in love with so long ago.

Playing The Angel

Precious

Precious and fragile things
Need special handling
My God what have we done to you
We always tried to share
The tenderest of care
Now look what we have put you through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

Angels with silver wings
Shouldn't know suffering
I wish I could take the pain for you
If God has a master plan
That only He understands
I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

I pray you learn to trust
Have faith in both of us
And keep room in your hearts for two

Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we'd manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give

M.L.Gore

The sun and the rainfall

I have been gone for while due to way too many things.

During my absence Hurricane Katrina stopped by. Luckily my family is safe and very minumal damge to my house. I now have a few a few of my wife's family staying with us because they are not allowed back to their homes. 10 people, 2 dogs, 2 cats, a bunch of fish and 1 rabbit sharing a 3 br/2ba house that was running off a generator till yesterday at 1:40 pm.

I now can take a cold shower without making loud noises.

Luckily the devistation that took place in New Orleans and the surrounding are so far has not had an affect on my kids. The evacuation and 1 week stay in Athens, TX was more like a fun trip for them. The news showed nothing but the problems in New Orleans, but they remained happy and optimistic.

I want to tell the people of Athens "Thank You" for making us all feel welcomed. Everyone we met in Athens was very accomidating and helpful. If we weren't living out of a small hotel room we would have felt at home.

This is a strange feeling. Too many uncertainties in the area in which I work and live. Even though I know my family is ok, I don't know how the New Orleans area will do. Will people not come back? Will friends lose jobs because of businesses that cannot recover? Will this all matter?