Saturday, November 12, 2011
Offering thanks
Last night a serious windstorm hit Spokane, the first since early spring. Several trees dropped on houses and power lines around town.
Polistra and Happystar are offering up a prayer of thanks to St Gummarus, the patron of wood-cutters. [Sidenote: Gummarus... now there's a name that won't come back into style, even among serious Catholics!]
Since April, no more worry about a tree dropping on the house! Zero trees in yard means Zero Problems from trees.
And since September, no more worry about a falling fence. Not precisely Zero Problems in this case ... the only way to reach that point would be Zero Fences ... but this storm was as strong as any I can remember, and the newly braced fence is perfectly unaffected.
[Sidenote: There was evidence of the wind's ground-level turbulence in a neighbor's yard. She has a short tree-stump 'capped' by an upside-down heavy clay flowerpot. Not sure why the pot is there; maybe an attempt at decoration. The wind sucked the flowerpot off the stump!] ¶ 12:53 PM
Polistra and Happystar are offering up a prayer of thanks to St Gummarus, the patron of wood-cutters. [Sidenote: Gummarus... now there's a name that won't come back into style, even among serious Catholics!]
Since April, no more worry about a tree dropping on the house! Zero trees in yard means Zero Problems from trees.
And since September, no more worry about a falling fence. Not precisely Zero Problems in this case ... the only way to reach that point would be Zero Fences ... but this storm was as strong as any I can remember, and the newly braced fence is perfectly unaffected.
[Sidenote: There was evidence of the wind's ground-level turbulence in a neighbor's yard. She has a short tree-stump 'capped' by an upside-down heavy clay flowerpot. Not sure why the pot is there; maybe an attempt at decoration. The wind sucked the flowerpot off the stump!] ¶ 12:53 PM
