It be river pirate season!
There is flooding in the Haw though I couldn't get close enough to see how bad it was. There is a rather steep hill down to the bank from my back porch and I couldn't get past the mental image of doing a Michael Douglas ala Romancing The Stone minus landing face first in Cathline Turner's lap at the bottom. Add instead landing face first in a whole mess of copper headed water rattlers on their way to higher ground. Fear is a powerful demotivator.
Due to some interesting topography, my 500 year flood plane is about 10 feet from the bank on my side, and 150 yards out on the other side. The last time we had a flood it looked like this, (in October of 2003):
Click the image for the full sized version. That was the view from my back deck.
At any rate I'm feeling the urge to hoist the sail on the Fairlane and engage in some misbehavior of the river pirate kind. Arr!
Oh they steal from the rich and they give to the poor
Sighted on the city council and gave them what for
Our motives and methods are hard to explain
The pirates of Reidsville the ship called Fairlane
*sigh* I guess I should patch the sky lights, and the porch roof first though. Whatever happened to "we rape we pillage" anyway?
