What are you doing? (Part 1)

…2 months… of rain… are the houses there on those stilts, engineered so, for such occasions as that?

Stay safe ChakraS.S.

Please do.
Reposting your post in my pagan thread.
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Creating enough energy to fool my body into feeling like I got enough sleep using coffee and a bit of food. Another 13 hour day, another sleepless night last night.

Do you smoke enough weed? Im worried.

Definitely not.

Thanks magsj. I survived :stuck_out_tongue:

Nope. They’re not engineered for that amount of rain. That was a freak low pressure system that just sat over the area for about a month before s-l-o-w-l-y moving away. I wasn’t worried about the foundation and piers holding up. My house was well-jammed into the side of the hill. I was more worried about the side of the hill shearing off and taking the foundations (and me) with it.

Yes, the houses around here are built off ground – even if only a foot or two – to allow water, air and animals to pass under but usually it rains at night and the days are sunny throughout most of the year. That’s one of the reasons I moved here.

BTW, how’s your health been?

Haha!! I got reposted in your Pagan Thread? – well, it sure felt like the gods battling it out last night. Thanks Fixed.

I found the video taken by a local who filmed the aftermath of the last big storm. It’s 15 mins long so I added some music and a few photos at the end to fill out the music track. If I had time, I would have stabilized the video and fixed the exposure but it’s good enough for what I wanted to show.

This video shows the road going out of the valley towards the town and sea. The music was written and performed by Nick Cave and/or Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. (I should have asked the local dude and Nick Cave for permission but it’s just for ILP so I hope it’s not a problem. Please don’t repost the vid so it stays buried here and keeps me out of trouble. [-o< )

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JSS has rubbed off on me…I’m becoming a language stickler. #-o How’d that happen? :confused:

lol

Chakra, loved your vid and the sound track.

Reminds me of this poem

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“Core of my heart my country”.

Taking part in Trump’s “National Day For The Victims Of Communism” .

Christmas shopping online

Thanks Shield. I’m not sure if you can see how much damage was done unless you know what it looked like before the storm. Gaps in the treeline, for instance, look pretty normal unless you know what once stood there - but it’s all fine. This is how it should be.

I’m in awe of the destructive power of Nature. Death and destruction are two of her most precious - and unappreciated – gifts. Without destruction, there IS no creation. When we look at the awesome grandeur of this world, we’re actually looking at the result of massive destruction. Majestic mountains, beaches of golden sand, deep-cut valleys and even the soil that life rises from, are all The Destroyer’s gifts and it’s silently going on all around us (and within) just slow enough to be out of sight. The line from your poem where the poet says how much she loves ‘the beauty and the terror’ sums up my feelings for this magnificent planet beautifully.

The photos at the end of the vid show two mountains - one is Mount Jerusalem; the other, Mount Warning. The ‘beauty and the terror’, indeed.

Glad you enjoyed it, Shield.

While in front of the sun lamp, pretending to be in Florida smelling the ocean breezes as I mosey along white sand beaches with the gentle waves lapping at my ankles. No sun equals big depression. P.U. This winter stinks!

Another day nearly tipping 90f and it is not officially summer yet. Chance of a shower late afternoon.

It is going to be a long hot summer. Ugh.

SM,

Let’s swap! My offer to swap out locations still stands. :stuck_out_tongue: You can bake meat pies here and I will tend to your petting zoo there. :wink:

Reminiscing in my music thread. :sunglasses:

Window shopping for an artificial pre-lit Christmas tree. I’ve also got my eyes on some musical chaser lights that plays up to 25 carols. I love the lights choreographed with the holiday sounds. :occasion-santa:

What are you cooking for Thanksgiving?

We’re having a huge (typical) buffet spread for 30+ people with my contributions being…
My Great Aunts Noodle Strudel dessert
Green beans sauteed in bacon and onion

I am working in my High-Tech Autoclave Germfree Mobile Laboratory with scientific support staff - again.


By the way:

Will we get Gifts for Christmas this year again? :slight_smile:
Or have we been too naughty, too bad, too wicked? :frowning:

Oh, the cuckoo of one of my cuckoo clocks just “told” me that we still have to wait. :frowning:

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That is hard work!

Best if you bewitch Joker and be his Caribbean Queen. Much more fun.

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