Brazoria, Tuesday, September 20, 12:30 pm

NEAL: Ann went to her regular Tuesday-morning Texas Master Gardeners workday this morning.   The Fall Plant Sale is scheduled for this coming Saturday, the same day that Rita is supposed to make landfall.   Ann, and several of her fellow Master Gardeners, have expressed some doubt about the fate of the Plant Sale, but several others wanted to proceed with preparations anyway.   We'll see what happens in a day or two.

Meanwhile, I spent the morning cleaning the garage to make room for potted plants and other stuff that can't be left outside during high wind conditions.   We plan to fill the van with plastic boxes containing stuff we don't want to leave here if/when we evacuate, so we'll have to remove the rear bench seat (more stuff to store in the garage).

Assuming that we decide to evacuate, we plan to head to Houston and camp out with Sarah and Clint.   They have two dogs at the moment: the resident dog Charley and a guest dog Sadie, a neurotic stray one-eyed Blue Heeler that Sarah is trying to nurse back to health.   Which means we'll have a total of four people, four dogs, and a cat riding out the storm in a one-bathroom house.