News and Weather at (almost) Four

What a perfect song to be playing... I have a friend who lives in Santa Rosa Beach, Fl, which the Weather Channel guy specifically mentioned as being in Dennis' path. That sucker is a Category 4 right now. Beth and Stan have always been pretty blase about hurricanes, but I'll tell ya something... after Fran, which technically wasn't even a hurricane by the time it blew four oak trees over on my house, I don't ever want to be that close to any hurricane again, never mind a category four. I say that, but I don't know that I'd evacuate from where I live now, except maybe in light of the aftermath. I'm on the second floor of a three story building with 12" thick masonry walls, so I'm not likely to have the roof land on me, tree branches come through the walls at me, or flooding get to me. The aftermath, however... I also remember no water, no power, no phones.... ah, good times. Har.

In other news: I found this article interesting. I've never considered myself to be particularly analytical about politics, but I thought this was pretty obvious. So much so, in fact, that I was almost surprised to see an article articulating it. Now, if.... oh, never mind. Not gonna happen, anyway. Sigh.

The new scroll is coming along. For some reason, the acanthus leaves have given me fits this time. Usually I don't have any trouble with them. I finally got 'em going, though. Whew. I plan to try real raised gold leaf gesso this time. I found the required hide glue on Friday, which had been a problem in the past. So, what with one thing and another, I'm feeling all happy about the scroll. Whee!