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Feeding The Spiders. You can comment here or there.

Thursday afternoon it was threatening rain and the cool breezes were absolutely delicious. I decided to take a drive up through Walland and come back with some sort of treat from Walland Center (Welch’s Grape juice…I am a Bug of simple tastes).

As I was heading down the highway, I happened to look up and over to the left at the mountains and ‘forest fire’ popped into my head. I wouldn’t have thought anything of it except I sat down at my computer today and saw this:

… Increased fire weather threat this weekend across east
Tennessee… southwest Virginia and extreme southwest North
Carolina…

Here is a wildfire danger statement issued in coordination with the
Tennessee division of forestry… the Virginia division of forestry
and the North Carolina division of forestry.

A ridge of high pressure building into the southern Appalachians
will produce dry and unseasonably warm conditions through this
weekend. Low afternoon humidities dropping into the middle and
upper 20s and southwest winds between 5 and 15 mph will produce
enhanced fire weather conditions this weekend.

Any open burning is considered dangerous at this time. Be very
careful of heat and Sparks while operating any equipment or
smoking in wildland areas. Fire can spread quickly under these
conditions.

I thought it was interesting so if you’re up in the mountains be careful.

Resolving Conflicts and Neighborhood Politics

Perhaps it is a karmic thing, but Hugo and I have managed to situate ourselves between two of the most grumpy, hateful, people in the county. The neighbor to the left is convinced that she has a right to maintain the shrubbery and lawn on the left of our property. Why? Because she’s been doing it for 14 years and she’s batshit insane.

Now, I’m generally not one to argue with someone who wants to alleviate my workload but if you accost me while I am mowing and tell me that I can’t mow there, there being on my own property, steel yourself for my retort. It may or may not be polite depending on our previous interactions and your reason for *why* I cannot mow there. There’s a nest of yellow jackets nearby? Yes…please tell me about that. You just fertilized, seeded, and patched a piece of land that you have no claim to? Terribly sorry you wasted your time and money.

She then started coming at me wanting to know if she didn’t fertilize that portion of the yard who was going to do it. She then pointed her finger at me and said, incredulously, “You??”

So…two things. Given my upbringing, history, and the fantastic amount of money I spent on therapy and rage calming medications over the last year and a half I would seriously advise anyone with half an inclination to point their finger at me and be a snotty fuck to very carefully reconsider their next few moves. I’m not going to physically beat down a woman in her 70s. In fact, I can’t think of a situation where I would want to cause another person physical harm. I, however, have zero problem tearing anyone a new asshole verbally and will do so when and where I feel like it. It’s all the Mercury in my chart, you see.

Next, don’t ever challenge me on something like this because I will either rock it out or tear it up so magnificently it will take your breath away. I’ll make my yard look like a golf course in heaven which will make your shit look like a pitiful wasteland OR I’ll pave the entire fucking thing and paint it pink.

The neighbor on the right? Yeah…he threatened to shoot my dogs who weren’t anywhere near him. That’s not all he has done but that is way more than enough.

The really sad part about all of this is that I really wanted to be friendly with these people but they are making it incredibly hard to stay civil. So what is a Bug to do?

We’re having an 8′ high fence installed next week.

Happy Ishtar

I‘ve been getting txts, tweets, and emails all day wishing me a happy easter, he is risen, praise god.

I’m counter-balancing these communiques with laundry, lime sparkling water, studies, studies, and more studies while trying not to be a jerk.

Good times.

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the planet is confused

I woke up this morning before the alarm and peeked outside. Snow. Cold. Windy. Overcast. On April 7th. What?

I just let Coco out (10:10am) and we have sunshine, blue skies, the snow is gone, and the wind has died down. Tweeting birds. The whole springtime package. Still quite cold but……what?