DAY 527: Other than a few long ago breaks in the heavy, threatening clouds, the rain hasn't stopped. The ground is soft and saturated. A greenish spongy substance that first appeared on the north side of my body is growing and is spreading. The once upstanding blades of grass have turned dull -bent with the weight of the constant rain. Nothing is growing in the gardens or fields but the strongest most resilient, inedible weeds. The freezer is nearly empty of the little food we salvaged and preserved from last summer, which was not much of a summer at all. Bea is reconsidering her vegetarian ways, but the chickens and goats have become weak and emaciated. The cars and dogs don't even have any meat left on their bones. Otis looks at me in "that way," but I will be damned if I will be his dinner. We hear reports from outlying areas that there is a deluge off the coast that's drifting in. More rain is on the way. Roads are being cut off by the flooding. Fields are turning to marshland. I don't know how much more I can take... WELCOME TO OREGON!!!
2 comments:
i'd cry me a river
if the river didn't flow
i'd cry me an ocean
but it's coming up the road
i'd cry me up to noah's ark
and charge 'em extra just to park
i'd cry me a river
if the river didn't flow
i'd laugh until the summer
if the summer ever came
i'd laugh until the sun shines
and then forget its name
i'd laugh and drop right to my knees
i'd sell shower caps to all the bees
i'd laugh until the summer
if the summer ever came
(hit it boys)
oh, oregon
oh, oregon
you don't need a kingdom
when you live in kingdom come
the rain will wash away your tears
they make the finest micro beers
you don't need a kingdom
when you live in kingdom come
(take it!)
i'd smile at the rainbows
that paint the heavy sky
i'd smile at the moonbeams
i'm sure i just might fly
sometimes i have to hold my mouth
it's hard to do when you're heading south
i'd smile at the rainbows
that paint the heavy sky
i'd cry me a river
if the river didn't flow
i'd cry me an ocean
but it's coming up the road
i'd cry me up to noah's ark
and charge 'em extra just to park
i'd cry me a river
if the river didn't flow
(hit it boys)
oh, oregon
oh, oregon
you don't need a kingdom
when you live in kingdom come
the rain will wash away your tears
they make the finest micro beers
you don't need a kingdom
when you live in kingdom come
(take it!)
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I'm hearin' bluegrass... mando and dobro accompanying a big old dreadnought and a stand up bass. Time fer them Soggy Mountain Boys to hit the ol' highway... that is, if it ain't flooded out.
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