Rain and lies

 The worst of the flooding you are hearing about is just east of our location. Having said that, it is coming down very hard where we are in Westlake so we will watch and wait.. I-10 is or was closed just east of here near Iowa. You forget how hard it can rain down south. Think of a heavy thunderstorm, minus the thunder, then multiply by an order of magnitude. In the RV, conversation is impossible. We are safe for now and rest assured are paying attention to the weather.

 I take you back to last August and our working at Trenholm. There the books were delivered to the side walk and we had to move them inside. About 20 feet or so at the furthest point. Five pallets of books but four or five of us so not so bad. They told me SOWELA, where we are working, was better. College has loading dock and everything better. Got to cal bs on that statement. Pallets are delivered to loading dock at central receiving. Then they have to be brought to sidewalk in front of portable building. From there you have to load them on two wheel handcart, UP a sloping ramp for about sixty feet. Now make it 6.5 pallets and only TWO to unload. Now you can get 5 cartons per load, each carton weighing 60 pounds on average, or total of 300 pounds. Bend over, pick up sixty pounds and put on cart and repeat four more times. Now push/pull that cart UP that ramp into the building. Repeat that process thirty or so times, rushing between rain storms, in hot humid weather. Yeah, I will pass on going to gym. Times like this when I realize that I am no longer a young man. I will be hugging my pillow while many of you are watching the Olympics. No, Mary did not move any cartons of books.


A couple of photos for you.

A very tired boy...