Don't know whether you should stay or you should go. Whatever you choose, stay close to us for support, though, ok?

I think you do need a break from he drama..but my thoughts on a barge cook differ, unless it is your own Bee barge. But considering the new problem with bee reactions, maybe a chicken barge?
Maybe the hubs being home to run interference will help the son see Dear ol'e Dad as more than a factor in sustenance. Who knows he may fly the coop when faced with Dad's business manner.
We can hope?
If you go, may the roads be smooth and the pastures green...also dotted with wifi hotspots. I am ready for a vicarious adventure! My bags can be packed virtually as fast as yours. :)
J.

Hubs is more of a problem for the bee barge than my bee allergy. In my mind, anyway. Everyone here has more clues than average as to how healthy a place my mind is. I have yet to be able to collaborate with hubs on much of anything that is not all ready written and regulated. My anxieties over the beekeeper allergy have been responding well to exposure therapy.

When I give credibility to the notion that I really can understand nature languages more naturally than I care to understand the human dialects, I find a belief that bees have more colony memory than personal memory and that they remember me from the days when they led me to truly profound places, and that I was even able to rescue them from difficulties such blockages at their hive entrances. At their request, of course.

At the time of the bee mobbing which created the allergy, I was listening to execu-hubs more than I was listening to them while my hands were in their hive. I do believe they have since been very patient in explaining to me, "That is not what we trained you for."

Don't you DARE tell my shrinks I said that. . .

At this point, I think I could handle my own hives, as long as all executive types stay in their offices while I get my bee zen on.

Anyhoo. . . Left the homestead to the menfolk and have made it across the Sabine river into Duck Dynasty country. Not too sure yet, but I think I am heading to the environmental hot spot which is the base of my current mid-continental hydrology study. Here's the link I am currently studying, if anybody wants to ride along.

http://www.americaswetlandresources.com/background_facts/detailedstory/LouisianaRiverControl.html

I miss my feather babies. Grand babies, too. Not so much the shaving babies.

Don't mean to go off topic, arf, but after looking at your link I was wondering if you're where there's a lot of flooding going on these days.

Anyway, thinking of you as you work through these intense days right now.

Hope you find renewal in your commune with nature arfie. Best of luck and I'm sure such a competent male as your husband can remember chook food and water.

My greater faith lies in the resilience of Life. I need my feather babies, garden, et al, far more than they need me.

I expect to be camping in the Atchafalya Basin tonight. Hoping to find a row boat for tomorrow. My support dog still doesn't know what a boat is. Wonder how she'll do.

Tonight's campfire? Wanna have an inter-hemispheric sing-a-long? Northern hemisphere to Southern hemisphere?

Get your motor running. . .

It is wetland at the delta of one of the most massive water systems in the world, muji. Flooding is its nature, as is providing an inland buffer against the tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico. Snow melting in Canada can bring new water to the Atchafalya Basin. I think of the Old River Control Complex as a massive kink in a VERY big garden hose. The pressure is still building along the New Madrid seismic zone. The same seismic zone which has devastated Haiti more than once. My money is on Indiana and Missouri as the next beach front property, but. . . Guessing where Mother Earth will shrug next is even dicier than betting on horses.

The Katrina flood in New Orleans was NOT a natural disaster. Many believe that it was a clear message from the Ol' Mississippi herself that she is finished asking nicely to let her water flow. She be a mighty force to argue with.

I'm with you about Katrina, with no lack of compassion toward the good people of New Orleans. I come from the area of the largest river mouth in the world, the River Plate. You don't mess with estuaries like ours nor with deltas like the Mississippi's where it meets the gulf.

I hope your folks are safe in the flooding. I was caught in a car that was swept down a river once and had to be rescued from it (yeah, my nutty dad was at the wheel). Freak accidents can happen just in a flood. Be safe in your wanderings.

What help we can provide, we will, Arfie. Travel safely and well, and peace be your journey.... Maybe it'll help the destination make itself clearer?

Gentle support.

Would this be the notorious "Cuenca del Rio de Plata?" The one which holds the Ascuncion Falls? I still haven't discussed it or researched it in English. Didn't even know that "Plata" was being translated as, "Plate." If it is, indeed, the same one.

For sure, the Asuncion neighborhood is on my bucket list. My South American exploration still hasn't made it far from the Andes Mountains. The nearest I have come is to stand at the western edge of the Amazon Basin. Wow! Color me speechless.

So much world and so little time. . .

I don't worry much about floods. I can spot a flood plain, even under pavement and progressive landscaping. I navigate watersheds far more naturally than I navigate human halls. The Austin homestead is on a natural apex. I will have my arc built long before the neighbors have finished drowning. Waiting out a natural storm is a no-brainer for me.

Letting God tend the menfolk.

Arfie, water follows laws of nature and physics and does'nt deviate. Humans do little else. Put me in the middle of the woods and give me a yukon pack, I'll be okay. Put me in Suburbia? Not so much. Big support continues.