I went out tonight and watered the garage. While it's unusual for me to water anything in the middle of the summer, I took the precaution of hosing down the garage walls, the wooden fence, and the giant pile of wood and blackberry cuttings that I probably should have run to the dump a long time ago.
Yup, we have an arsonist prowling around north Seattle. Hopefully, giving all the burnables a good soak will dissuade the jackass from thinking about starting anything around our place. The motion activated light should help too.
Susan didn't even know there was an issue; she looked askance at me for wanting to go out at 9:30 at night to water. Turns out that she didn't even look at the front page of the paper today. Big headlines. Big picture. Picture with firefighters and burning condo construction site. Nope, she went straight for the comics and the opinion section and didn't even glance at Section A.
"Do you have to water right now?"
"Yes, I didn't get a chance to earlier."
"But can't it wait til tomorrow?"
"NO! That stuff can burn! And there's an arsonist in the neighborhood."
"But... what arsonist?"
"Didn't you read the paper?"
"Well, that's what I get for thinking local news isn't important."
Heh. Why do we keep paying $5 a week for the Times again?
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Give me some credit, dear. I didn't say local news wasn't important. I said I didn't think it was INTERESTING. Which you have to admit is usually true. Blah blah blah monorail blah blah blah city council yadda yadda yadda. And in pre-Annabel days, I paid more attention to the paper. Now, I figure if it's really important, it'll be in the blogs. Which works quite nicely for national and international news.
Posted by: Susan | August 3, 2004 01:58 PM
