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Beautiful day here today in central Texas, and full of work to clean all the furniture that has been stored in the dusty garage at 1050, then move it into the house. Moving furniture sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but actually the cleaning job is the bigger of the two. We have to make sure that all the spider nests we brought over from the gulf coast don't make it into the new house.

The 22000 gallon water tank is now full. Collecting your own water makes this common commodity a whole lot more valuable, so it seems. When the tank finally filled and all the subsequent rain flowed through the water tank and out the overflow, it seemed like it was too valuable to just "throw away", but that's what happens when the tank is full. Maybe we need a second tank, and then we could get into the business of selling water-------But probably not, as there must be a law against that---maybe something to that effect on page 891 of the 2000 page House Medical Bill.

Anyway, we are plodding along, wondering when the crazy congress will be brought to heel.

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Encounter in Blanco

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