Not Amused

[cornerofmadness]

Still waiting to catch that break. Mom hasn't gone to Gram's yet to see if the flood waters penetrated the nearly 200 year old hand dug basement...you know the one, the one that hold EVERYTHING I own. I may no longer own anything except a carload of stuff between who knows what damage was done in FL and what damage was done by the PA flooding. And I just realized that ALL my original stories are on the computer in FL, you know the one, the one that the hard drive didn't get copied when I thought it had been AND all the back up discs are also there.

AND I found out why there's a flood in my bedroom. There's damn raccoons in my attic. They pulled up the shingles, broke through the roof and are now in the attic. I'm all for calling animal control and getting them OUT of there rather than trying to scare them out myself with lights and music as suggested (I'm sorry, lights in an attic full of insulation scares me. I think FIRE)

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[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

EEP! Raccoons in the attic, mousey in the house, floods everywhere?

EEEP!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

EEP! Raccoons in the attic, mousey in the house, floods everywhere?

EEEP!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

It's a massive cosmic plot to show me the native way of life without possessions is the true path of happiness

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Although this is The True Way, there's got to be an easier, less emotionally painful way to learn about it. It's not like all that stuff in the basement is just "stuff". Some of it has irreplaceable sentimental value, I presume.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yes much of it, especially the books and the art work (which is gladly sealed in totes), my sax, my lamps, my furniture...thank goodness I dragged all my Native American collectibles given to me by my reservation patients and friends out years ago and they're in my old bedroom.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, electronics, furniture, even most books are replaceable. Art work, expensive and one-of-a-kind things aren't.

Yes much of it, especially the books and the art work (which is gladly sealed in totes),

You're wiser than I am!

thank goodness I dragged all my Native American collectibles given to me by my reservation patients and friends out years ago and they're in my old bedroom.

I would love to hear more about these.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I have a silver and turquoise double squash blossom Navajo necklace from my ex-fiancee of many years ago. One of my Lakota boyfriends gave me a turtle shell rattle and an older patient gave me an enormous medicine shield and a painted rabbit skin in Lakota style. I have a dance fan and a couple other rattles and I was taught to do Indigenous beadwork but my hand injury makes that hard now.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Wow, I would love to hear more about your experiences on the Reservations and the people you met. I was with a Piaute woman for about four years, but she was completely urban, and kept what little connections she had to her heritage (mostly spiritual) pretty private.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I've met Russell Means a couple of times and got a book signed to me as a thank you for my work there. And Sitting Bull's grandson was one of my patients though sadly he was too ill to talk much.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

So was Russell Means intimidating, or is he one of those guys that just *seems* like he'd be that way, and turns out to be a sweetheart in person?

How *old* was Sitting Bull's grandson??

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

He was a little full of himself to be honest but not as full of himself as Sherman Alexie who is amusing but really an egoist, at least that's his public face.

Sitting Bull's grandson back in the 90's was in his 90's.

An old Lakota Paha ska (white mountain, if I remember my Lakota) did hte skins for me. He dressed in regalia and parked himself in Keystone for the tourist trade daily.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah? You think?

PS - still dying over the "wasichu" comment on Gargoyles the other night.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I hope animal control will do something. I had a raccoon living in the wall of my garage for six months and I was told to hire someone. And, furthermore, if I trapped the raccoon myself, they still wouldn't take it away.

I hope your stuff survived intact.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Don't know about my stuff or the 'coon. Problem's been reported the home's owner...who I think is about to sob.