Listen to your Mother!

Mother Nature washed my basement floor -- TWICE!

She must have thought it was looking dirty, because the "100-year flood" has come twice in the past three weeks. It's like she was reading the back of a shampoo bottle: Lather. Rinse. REPEAT.

My mother suggested that I clean up & clear out some of the extra stuff in my basement. Mother Nature made it happen.

It has been raining since Thursday. Conversation around town doesn't start with "Did you get flooded?" but rather, "How much water is in YOUR basement??" This is perfect weather if your basement floor needs a good washing, or... if you're a DUCK!

It's something drilled into our heads from a very young age... "Listen to your Mother!" But as adults, we sometimes question such authority. Not any more!

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These are photographs of the Minuteman Bikeway as taken yesterday, March 14, 2010 from the Gold's Gym parking lot in Arlington Heights, MA.

Minuteman Bikeway under the Park Avenue Ext. bridge looking westward toward Lexington

Minuteman Bikeway looking eastward toward Arlington Center

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"It's not wise to fool Mother Nature" was a great advertising slogan of years past, butter or no butter!