returning to the rain forest..

So my previous post was about my grandfather. I get home from New York yesterday to Rhi, 'welcome back, we may be prepping for another hurricane by the end of the week'...yep, another one. This will be big storm number 3 if Hurricane Karl hits us in any shape or form. I'm not looking forward to this but I asked for it.

What this means for everyone: unless you hear me yelling to run for higher ground, assume I'm doing my job and plastic wrapping the Stillman House again.

...when in Texas...

not a vacation

For those out in internet land, my grandfather died last week.  So here's the obituary and his info. He had a lot of stories and a great sense of humor.

John D. Dresser Loving husband, father, grandfather 

CANANDAIGUA - 

John D. Dresser, age 78, of Holiday Harbour, died on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. at F.F. Thompson Hospital. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Betsy Dresser; two children, Jill (Robert) Moore and Mark (Debra) Dresser; four grandchildren, Kate, Sarah, Brian and Daniel; two sisters, Marilyn (Stewart) Turner and Janice (Richard) Sills; brother, James (Mary Jane) Dresser; sister-in-law, Marilyn Dresser; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brother, William Dresser. Mr. Dresser was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. He was a volunteer at the VA Medical Center and Sonnenberg Gardens. Mr. Dresser retired in 1998, after 23 years as the owner and operator of Trail Break Motor Inn in Fairport. There will be no calling hours. Services are private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Sands Cancer Center, 360 Parrish St., Canandaigua, NY 14424. Arrangements are by the Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home Inc., Canandaigua. Condolences may be offered at www.JohnsonKennedy.com

climate control...

South Texas is hot...and humid. For the last week or so I go to work, it rains for about 20-30 min (sometimes I get a little wet) and then it's beautiful for the next several hours before the clouds roll in and maybe we get more rain. I live in a bloody tropical rain forest!

This is more or less comical for me considering I spent three years of maybe getting to see a, uno, single good storm per year when not in North America. Now I've got an abundance of rain, not necessarily storms, but rain.

At least it's warm.

...when in Texas...