Flood Washington with relief

It's Saturday afternoon and I am putting the lights on the tree and stressing out over where the Advent calendar should go. Hanging off the bookcase? The mantle? And what about my big ceramic angel and the holly garland? I've rearranged my entire living room so I don't know where anything goes.

At least I have a living room.

Chehalis is the part of Washington I try to sleep through when we're driving down to Powell's. I'm a city girl. I can't imagine keeping livestock or living in a farmhouse all by its lonesome. Pretty much all I know about Lewis County is how to get to Mt. St. Helen's, because a friend of mine worked there one summer and I'd drive down to visit her. Which I hated doing because MAN talk about the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. I had no idea that area was in danger of flooding or that it had even flooded before.

In other words, I sort of suck and I want to help. Enter Daring Young Mom, who spent her day digging mud out of houses. Go read how you can help here and check out her photos here. Even if I wasn't technically crippled by the Mysterious Back Injury, I probably wouldn't be driving down to Chehalis any time soon, so I'm grateful she's offering a way to participate in the cleanup.

Comments

[Salome Ellen]

Not that it will solve anyone's problems, but it's MANTEL. Mantle is a cloak, or the wick thing of a Coleman lamp. You are in good company -- our metropolitan newspaper does the same thing at least weekly!