Barbara J. Hamby

I’m Gonna Let the Scientists Worry

A website popped into my view today that deals with the various types of disasters that may befall this country in the foreseeable future, i.e., earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, etc. I’m very happy to learn that there are people (some are knowledgeable scientists) who are worrying about these possibilities. That frees me up to worry over what to write about next and whether anything I write is worth reading.

If as many people were thinking about the best ways to deal with these disasters as are predicting them, I would worry even less.

On a personal level, I can’t believe scientists haven’t noticed that, during the last 75 years, the earth has started turning so much faster that a week goes by in just a couple of days. It’s pretty apparent to me every weekend that the preceding week has gone faster than the one before it.

Our first rain after a long dry spell is always welcome. Today the flowerbeds are drinking up the moisture greedily and a frog is croaking his appreciation outside our front door. Unfortunately, some drivers never learn to slow down when the oil-covered streets are rained on. So there have already been crashes. I took the back way to the store and made it home safely.

The cruise photo album for 2005 is nearly finished. All the photos are in place, but the Alaskan trip pictures need to have labels added. The travel log pages for the side trips in Europe are finished and on my website. I just have to get us back across the Atlantic and that journey’s history will be complete.

So, back to work I go.