Thursday, March 9

Time for
some bitching.

I’ve had a
better couple days. Yesterday, while drying off from my shower, I lifted my
left leg and my back made a very loud and very painful pop. The pain was both instantaneous
and sharp. Trouble enough, but to add to the fun I was getting ready for a workshop
I had to teach an hour later. While I was gutting through the workshop, a right
wicked windstorm blew into the area. Right after I limped home from the
workshop, our power went out. Hundreds of thousands lost power in Michigan and
we will not get it back until at least Sunday. Bad, but not quite bad enough. What
we didn’t notice until later today is a tree in our back yard toppled and
crushed our neighbor’s fence. This is the fence that keeps his pit bulls in
check. Everyone wants free range pit bulls in their neighborhood, right. Our
insurance says they don’t pay for fence repairs because it was an act of god. Who’s
god let’s pit bulls roam free? Not mine.

Nailed it right good.

The storm
and subsequent damage was bad enough but Tuesday we took our Subaru in for some
problems. Which turned out to be $3,000 worth of problems. And they will not
have the parts in hand for several days. Audible sigh. I’m not real happy about
all of this but what really, really irks me is Lindsay went for blood work and
ended up being admitted to the hospital. On her Spring Break and her birthday
is tomorrow. That just ain’t right.

It hasn’t
been a completely horrible all week. Monday, we got in a little hike and saw
our first brown creeper and our first basking turtle of the year. Molly went to
Orlando for Spring Break and got to ride an air-boat. Gotta be more fun than running
from free ranging pit bulls.

Yellow-bellied slider, I believe an introduced species.

Molly and Emily on an air-boat.