Somehow,this gives me a great sense of pleasure. It is flooding here.My property doesn't flood,[never has],but the gravel road leading to my property does.About once a year I get flooded in for a couple of days.I usually kind of look forward to it,kinda like a little vacation. Its doing some serious raining,and I knew I would have to make provisions,but I had pressing business in town this am,plus was suspossed to work last night.I knew if I got out last night,I wouldn't be able to get back in this morning. So I worked last night,took care of my business this am,then did something I've always wanted to do,but forget about,untill it floods again. I went to Walmart,and bought the biggest 4 man blow up boat I could find.And then accessorized with a plethora of tacky,but useful items.It was great. I bought brightly colored rain ponchos in 4 different colors.I lucked out and found something I'de never seen before,but couldn't pass up.Mosquito head nets.Kinda like beekeeper headwear.I bought 4 head-band flashlight things[like miners wear].I went to the toy dept,and bought 4 pirate hats,and 1 Gilligan type hat,[in case I had a non-compliant family member,who might have too much pride to wear the pirate hats]. I bought 4 oars,and 2 big brightly colored umbrellas to stick in the fishing pole holders.A whistle on a bright flourescent yellow cord to wear around my neck,and a big compass,to aid in my navigation.A six pack of beer,and a bunch of banannas.Then I was ready. It was great.Our rowing skills were sadly lacking,but we were so busy admiring our "boating wear",that we didn't mind too much that we weren't making much headway.At one point,my daughter refused to wear her pirate hat,to which my response was,"This is a R******** family adventure,and you're making us look like fools,by not wearing your hat.If you don't put it back on,I'll blow my whistle all the way through the neighborhood."She complied. I called "AHOY" to all my neighbors as we passed. Life just don't get much better than this.

awesome. pics????? makes me want to live in flood country.

That's great, Czarina! When I first bought my boat, I bought a captain's hat and had a t-shirt that said "Master Yachtsman" with pictures of sailboats on it, and has a quote from the bible on it, "Even the winds and the waves obey him" and when we first took it out, I'd salute everybody going by. She sat down in the cabin until I took the hat off.

I'll get some pics and post them.I am off the next two days,and we are eagerly watching for road closeures,as we plan to try to improve our "boating skills". I'm still wearing my whistle.I like it.But I don't get to wear it tomorrow.They said I "was a little out of control with it",so I have to let someone else have a turn.I knew there would be a problem,when I only bought one whistle.But if you have more than one whistle,it sort of defeats its purpose.

Wow, that's hilarious. We definetly need pictures...

I love that story.

That is so awesome. That is exactly how to deal with minor natural disasters. Kind of reminds me, we had a lot of rain the last few weeks and often parts of our site would be flooded aboutu a foot deep. I knew this was bumming out the crew so I bought a set of thos ebrightly colored little plastic boats and floated them out onto the little ponds on the site. Worked good for morale, but those damn boats actually sank!

I wonder if the river ever flooded if me and the boy and the two cats could do that. Troll wouldnt want to wear a hat tho. And I bet I wouldnt be allowed the whistle.

I love you, Czarina.

We're going back out today,and I'll bring the digital camera,so I can get some pics and post them. We went out yesterday,and we quickly learned that our rowing skills weren't just sadly lacking,they were non-existant. We had to incorporate the aid of 2 sticks,[one part of a mop,and the other,a piece of pvc pipe]. This helped our momentum,but we still had trouble navigating.We can't seem to get coordinated,and tend to spin in circles.[this is where the beer came in handy]. But we're nothing if not tenacious,so we will continue in our efforts. [this is kinda sad,but I'm kinda hoping that at least one of my friends gets flooded in,so we can go and rescue them.I should be ashamed for thinking that.] Also,if we can ever get our skills together,and quit bumping into trees and stuff,I want to add a perch,so I can bring my favorite parrot,Buster,as I think this will tie in nicely with the pirate theme.

Help! I took some pics,and we look even more ridiculous than I originally anticipated. But I am having trouble saving the pics,to give them a link to click on. However,I can send them as a postcard.If someone wouldn't mind me sending them,maybe they could then post them for me? If so email me your address,and I'll send them.

You know I can't do it or I'd post some myself,but send me a postcard,sounds hillarious.

you can just send them to me. i don't know what i can do with them.

http://i3.yimg.com/3/fa9f5aae/g/boatin~1.jpg

i don't know how long that will last.

Thank you,Nate.

you look like crazy freaks, btw.

Ya,that was the fun part of it. It's imperative to accessorize properly.

"She accessorized properly" I want that on my gravestone.

I clicked it,it said access forbidden from external host?????

i get that now too. hmm

so do i

so fix it

fuck off.

jerk off why cant we see them? spare me the technical whohaw. czarina, send them to me, i'll make a page with them.

Thanks Patrick! They're on their way!

i got "access forbidden" the first couple of times, and then on the third it allowed me to save the picture. i set it as wallpaper.

czarina, send me simple jpgs, that postcard format is unknown to me and my machine. wanna read something hilarious? we get local weekly publications from all over...and in last weeks Portland Mercury there is a hilarious article here

the post card format is a zip file. the jpg can be found within it.

fuck it...the only (un) zip (er) program i have is PK Zip and its not wanting to anythign for me. I had netzip on the my old PC. sorry czarina, im not technically skilled enough to tweek with this. if i had simple jpg files, i could upload them to a page in no time...assuming homestead isnt giving me a hard time

i have it as a jpg.

fuck i really want to see these.

from the link above...yes its a jpg, but she is emailing me rdz files...my 'puter doesnt know what to do with the them, the only expander i have doesnt like or want these files.

You made me laugh Droop. Patrick,I'll try a couple of other ways.I'll email it to one of my email addresses,and then try forwarding it to you. I'll also try to save it in my documents,and then maybe you'll be able to access it.

rename the file .zip

me?

ok, got it

HERE YA GO!!!!

what is particularly funny...is the second boat pictures...the bird bath is eloquently "placed" above your heard. they look like they are eating your brains.

cool

Thank you Patrick! The second boat pic didn't come through.The one where they are eating my brains. The last 2 pics are of our Mexico trip.J wouldn't let me take any pics of her,but I snuck one of her ass.If she says "okay" I'll send it to Patrick to post.

hit reaload czarina. homestead webpage software needs coaxing sometime. come on J!!!!!

I got it!Thanks again Patrick,I really appreciate it. I sent you something funny in your email.

that's fantastic!

Pretty cool, Czarina. I dig that mosaic tile entranceway -- I take it that's your front door?

Actually,thats where J was staying.She had a really neat shower,too,with mosaic work,I got some pics in there,but their content wouldn't be appropriate for posting.

Sure they would. Anything goes here.