Irene: who's going to rebuild the country in cases of
natural disaster?
I'll rebuild my part of the country, but it will be tough
work. Rebuilding is definitely tough. Last month, I cleared
about 3600 square feet of vines using a sickle and a
machete. It took several days. Lots of aching muscles and
awkward callosities there, but that was the easy part. Then
I had to reset three, thirty-foot rock walls into a hill,
and reset a series of stone steps up to the orchard. It took
about a week. Masonry work followed: I rebuilt rain gutters,
and made a series of brick flowerbeds all over the hillside.
You'd think that would be enough and I could congratulate
myself and go watch TV. But no! I had to restore the
orchard, and that meant clearing trees, mowing, pruning,
spraying, demolishing an old shed with a sledgehammer, and
move a--gosh, it must have been solid cast iron!--bench to
the front of the orchard and level it into place.
Then when I'm getting ready to kick back and write bucolics,
Hilly the Bear makes his bad castle in the old rhubarb
patch. Yeah rebuilding is tough.
When we do rebuild the country, I would use a lot more blue
paint and lay more railroad tracks. Maybe also stop signs
should be black with yellow lettering. And definitely change
those School Zone signs: right now they show two stick
figures, one large and one small, standing way too close
together; it looks like a sign meaning "Warning Child
Molester." Whaddya think?
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