TheBanyanTree: Corn Moon 2023

[Theta Brentnall]

That's such a gut-punch thing to happen!  Glad you are nearby to lend 
support.  I hope your county is better about responding to building 
requests than the one Gerry's old house is in.  They had a fire 3 years 
ago that took out the garage and the ceiling over the family room.  And 
the battles began, first with insurance, and then the county started 
being obnoxious.  Gerry and his brother got a really good offer for the 
house as it stood and they took it.  Our son-in-law drove by there a few 
weeks ago and it was evident that nothing had been done.  He was looking 
at it when the new owner drove up and said they had gone through four 
rounds of drawings, engineering, and code updates and the most recent 
permit submittals had just been rejected yet again.  Of course, that's 
California for you.  Hopefully Texas is more sensible about getting the 
paperwork done so the building can begin.  How nice that the family has 
a good support system.

Theta

On 9/3/2023 4:17 PM, dale.m.parish--- via TheBanyanTree wrote:
> My girlfriend Judy's son's home burned a few weeks ago.  We were at my house
> when he texted her "House on fire," and she texted back "Whose house," and
> he replied "MINE!"
>
>   
>
> We got there after the 2nd fire truck.  They had all been out in the pool
> cooling off, when she went in to get something from the kitchen and Alexa
> was blasting, "FIRE! FIRE! EVACUATE!."  The bedroom door was too hot to
> open, and they called the volunteer fire department, but the house had a
> metal roof, and the bedroom fire had progressed into the attic.  By the time
> the fire department could get the roof cooled down enough to walk on and cut
> a large hole through the metal, most of the contents of the house were
> cooked or melted.  The structure didn't fail, but all the interior walls,
> ceiling and some of the flooring was compromised.  They had been planning to
> remodel the structure soon, so now they are going to get to rebuild from the
> ground up.
>
>   
>
> No one was injured (well, I got a cut leg plowing through a barbed wire
> fence in the dark, but other than that...) and none of the critters were
> lost.  She breeds Australian Shepherds and had eight -- four adults and four
> pups who had been thought to be under the house, but they had evacuated to
> the woods and came back after the commotion and firetrucks left.  She got
> her finger monkey, Harold, the flying squirrel, out first hand. Barn Cat,
> who's normally fed on top of the shop came out of hiding the next day.
> Horses and cattle stayed away from all the smoke.
>
>   
>
> They had a lot of friends, who came out of the woodwork to bring food,
> clothes, camper trailers, storage boxes, etc. They are going to live in a
> camper trailer parked between the old house and the shop while the old house
> is demolished and plans are formulated for the new.  The swimming pool still
> gets afternoon use to cool off and wash off the soot as they steadily go
> through the remains to salvage what they can.  Electricity has been restored
> to the shop and there are fans still blowing to push out the smokey smell.
> Since I'm only a few clicks away and Judy lives on the other side of the
> county, and had her washer go out the week after the fire, we've been the
> washateria stand-in for the clothes they have accumulated.  This weekend,
> they took off recovery to go on a Labor Day Weekend vacation that has been
> planned since early in the summer, to New Braunfels, in an attempt to float
> the Guadalupe River, but the first picture they posted indicated that the
> innertubes were too thick in the river to ever go downstream.  Still, hope
> that they are recharging their batteries.  Judy and I have been feeding the
> critters till tomorrow while they rest up for the return to the grind.
> Since her daughter-in-law owns an insurance agency, we expect that she'll
> get everything that she said was over-insured, but she's meticulous on
> photographing and cataloging everything both salvaged and destroyed.
>
>   
>
> Judy and I will visit the Guadalupe next weekend, hopefully after all the
> crowds have gone.  Looking forward to it.
>
>   
>
> Hugs,
>
> Dale
>
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> Dale M. Parish                                   For All Of Mankind'S
> Supposed Accomplishments,
>
> 628 Parish RD                                    Our Continued Existence Is
> Dependent Upon 20
>
> Orange TX 77632-0264                   Centimeters Of Topsoil And The Fact
> That It Rains.
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> Dale.M.Parish at gmail.com                                           --Toilet
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