Beware

For those of you wondering, I've been spending time with my visiting sister (Huzzah!) rather than blogging. Here's a pic from yesterday's wanderings. This is the root base from an uprooted tree. It's amazing how time becomes power and envelops everything.

Speaking of power, don't cross my sister. She asked two questions yesterday, one about what she saw as a low incidence of forest fires in the Seattle are. The second about earthquake activity in the area.

There are sensible, disaster-oriented questions. I made little noise and basically said: "Hmmm. Don't know about fires. But there don't seem to be as many thunderstorms here as in the southwest. So maybe fewer fires?" We both agreed that on earthquakes, "Who knows?" is the proper answer.

Sure nuf, we snuck past a fire (probably man-made) as we drove home. Now, this morning, the nice guys on the radio told us that there was a quake at Rainier, 4.5!

Don't get me wrong, having MJ around is great. Just don't encourage questions about natural distasters.