Harry wrote: Not to worry. If we need more water, we'll get it from Oregon when Karen isn't looking.
Oregon would be very happy to sell gray water to California at exorbitant prices on the free market but we are looking at another dry year and may not have enough water to go around at home. Of course, you wouldn't think that right now since It's been drizzling for two weeks and not expected to clear up through another week, but the meteorologists aren't happy yet. Keeps the skin moist, at least. I was leaving Office Depot this afternoon and stopped under the ledge out of the drizzle to get out my keys and a stranger teased me "It's just drizzle" because most Oregonians don't use umbrellas unless it's really raining - another reason you see so many ponytails or sports hairdos on women around here. At least in San Diego they started promoting dry gardens and naturalized plantings, as they now do in Las Vegas subdivisions to reduce wasteful lawn watering. Oregonians have yet to learn that lesson, since normally Mother Nature supplies us with mucho fresh water. These automatic sprinkler salesmen really do excel to sell their equipment here when it's so unnecessary! But that is exactly why some of these big trees fell over in those infrequent ice storms we have up here because their tree roots are shallow, too near the surface from all the rain. When the ice makes them top heavy, they come down. All these generations of Oregon homeowners who planted big trees awfully close to the house got a big surprise - and so did their insurers. You know what happened next. So, now that you've gotten a landscaping, environmental and hairdo lesson from me I guess we're partially even for all the Georgian you speak about so relentlessly and euphemistically. No, now that I think about it, we're not even close to being even. En garde. Karen East of Portland, West of Mt Hood Outgoing Mail Scanned by NAV 2002 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
