Post Ike, A Funny Thing Happened Today

Been working almost non-stop in the yard getting things cut up and placed by the road for the cleanup crews to pick up. One of the crew stopped today and asked if I had any "deep woods off". I handed him my can and he sprayed himself down and said, "I'm from Georgia and I thought we had mosquitos there, but these are huge and more than I have ever seen." I looked at him real serious like and said, " You're lucky, we killed the BIG ones. We had a real good hunt until I ran out of 410 shotgun shells!" He looked thoughtful for a minute and said, " I can almost believe that!" *LOL* I am down to where I can see some grass under all the leaves and twigs and larger pieces of limbs. I am working on cutting up the last BIG limb that came down and then I get to start raking.  Then comes the picking up and bagging. Normally I would re-cycle all of it, but  the pile would be dangerous this time. There would be too big a chance of fire from built up heat in my humus pile. I still have FEMA and my Insurance company to deal with. Waiting for them to get in touch with me since I have already applied to both. Last night I slept like a log for the first time since we evacuated and it was so nice. The only drawback was I woke up stiff as a board. Got to take a few hours away from the work tomorrow and get my hair cut. Way too long now. I am starting to look like I did back in the 60's and nothing is more rediculous looking to me than a man with thinning hair looking like a hippie. *L*
Respectfully,
Rett