Another Day in the Trenches

The good folks at 626 officially declare war on Mother Nature. Their strategy involves some serious trench warfare, which you can see in today's pictures.

Now all of this trench digging is a little over my head. I mean, it has been explained to me, but what I came away with was that this slab will be sort of like an island. After the trenches, they'll put cement blocks and sand and eventually steel rods that go into the ground. It's going to be like Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island. Come rain, hail, hurricane, burricane (that's what I call an ice storm), blizzard, typhoon, monsoon, earthquake, locusts, plague, or potato famine, this slab will not budge. That's the long and short of it.

On a totally different note, as you can tell from these pictures, it would appear that the Gulf Coast is getting more than its fair share of rain. We haven't had rain in Oxford since May. I would be grateful if everyone reading this today would go outside and perform a quick rain dance so that all of our plants don't die.

Thanks for reading.