Well, this is gonna be my second day of cleanup around the Chateau. We had a truly weird microburst -- just short of a tornado -- hit us for about twenty minutes. Never saw anything like it in my life. I have been through many hurricanes, so I know my inclement weather: This microburst was hurricane force.
The Beautiful Witch, Fancy Pants, and I stood in my open garage watching it. About fifty or so limbs broken off the rubber tree landed in my driveway. A pine tree dropped a limb in the driveway, too. Jeez.
Out back, it was startling -- Herself's Poinciana tree had been divested of most of its seed pods. About 500 or so. These things curl a little, and are long... so they very often lay on their long edge.
They look exactly like snakes.
Many of the seed pods split. So they now had vertical light/brown stripes down their snake bodies. Creepy as shiit. We have gotten about half way done in piling them into stacks. We've got about ten more stacks to gather. Then, I dunno yet. At least they aint heavy. Just creepy. You'll see one out of the corner of your eye and go auto-flinch.
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And, surprisingly, a very-long-dead bamboo pole came leaning out of my little jungle corner out back. About sixty feet long. I gotta cut it up. Haven't gotten to it yet, nor the big pine branch laying on the bamboo.
And I'd just cleaned the fargin gutters...
