LaTigresse
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Life is pretty good at my little farmette. We were not directly affected by the floods but both of my adult children were. My son just had a basement full of water which receded quickly, so he recovered very quickly. He is a hard working, get out of my way and let me do it, kinda guy. He had the basement cleaned out, inspected and water and electric turned back on within days. My daughter was just two weeks from delivering her first baby when it happened and they lost almost everything. Because of the cities hesitance in evacuating everyone in the 500 year flood plane they did not have time to get anything but their pets and a few armloads of clothes out. Also, they were told they might get a few feet of water in the basement worse case scenario. They had 6 feet of water on the mail floor. Had to ram the door to get back in after the water receded and the house cleared to enter. We were able to get my daughter out of the city before the roads were closed so she could stay here with water and AC as most of the city was without power and running water for a good part of a week. The upside, the baby has come, my daughter and her husband are settled into a nice little house and it's all going to be fine. I am ramping up for the big family gathering in September. I am doing the meat for the big day, supposed to be about 80 people for that. The week before, I will have somewhere between 5 and 10 people staying here at one time. Which leads to October and the plans to bring my new girl here for her trial period. I wanted to have her here this month but she is fearful of large groups of people and I thought a week of my family, in and out of the house, was just too much to ask of her right away. All of the furry babies are doing great. Because of the weather I haven't been able to ride much. First all the rain, then the horrible bugs that come with the standing water and humidity. Then all of the mowing, weeding and stuff that comes with great growing conditions. Just another busy summer.
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My twisted, self deprecating, sense of humour, finds alot to laugh about, in your lack of one! Just because you are well educated, articulate, and can use big, fancy words, properly........does not mean you are right!
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