Be back in a week ... thanks to Ike

This will be my last post until Monday, Oct. 6.

I’m taking a “hurrication.”

What is a “hurrication,” you ask?

Well, a “hurricane vacation,” or a “hurrication,” is when you take time off from work to fix up your house after a blow-by so you can go back to work and earn money for the next tropical storm/hurricane/End of Days.

Three things I have learned about hurricanes:

1) They love to tear down those wooden plank fences all over the region. With Rita and Ike, I’ve had 4-by-4 posts snapped by the force of those winds piling up against the planks like a stiff breeze in a sail. But if the planks are screwed in and not just nailed in, they will not going flying off like missiles.

2) Speaking of flying missiles, it pays to clear your property of flower pots, lawn chairs, picnic tables, etc. before the winds perk up. If you put them in the garage, they’ll be there when you get back and not in your kitchen or living room. Strip that yard!

3) Trees are nice to look at and the subject of a famous poem by Joyce Kilmer (who was a guy, by the way, despite that first name), but they are a pain in the neck in hurricane country. I have one big tree left after several storms. It is going to get a major haircut as soon as I scrape up some cash.

See ya soon.