Up The Middle

So i've been meaning to post since sunday but usually when i actually have time my brain is fried and i don't want to fuck with typing or i'd rather be working on my newest artwork, watching a movie, having sex, etc. Basically what i'm trying to say is i'm a piss poor LJer where posting is concerned :) However i enjoy all my friends posts and think that i'm somewhat of a prolific commenter so that should count for something damnit! :P

This weekend was pretty good- it was supposed to be a *fun-filled* weekend of car repairs performed by yrs truly and my dad but last thursday my stepmother had a bout with major kidney stones (who knew that drinking nothing but soft drinks and sugary lemonade would lead to kidney stones- we had all warned her) - we're talking so bad she had to be taken to Phoebe Medical- which is the major medical center in this part of the state. Anyways unexpected freedom allowed us to have a nice relaxing weekend, we went to the river on saturday to walk on the rocks and just generally enjoy nature. The river i'm referring to is the Chattahooche which down this far in its course is on the line between GA and AL. We sit right on what is known as the fall line where the piedmont changes rather rapidly into the coastal plain and as such so does the elevation. For any river crossing this line, it means (or meant before dams) a couple mile stretch of highly turbulent white water and jutting rocks- think huge- (the ones i have refered to walking on in previous posts when the waters low). Here in Columbus there is an overflowing damn that was built sometime in the early 1840's to supply power to all the cotton mills that lined the river- at one time in its history our city boasted the largest cotton mill in the world. Well the mills have long since closed but the dam still stands, creating a pretty dramatic 10 to 15 foot cascade of water a quarter mile wide. Below this dam are the rapids that i mentioned earlier. Another point important to this story is that the Chatahooche- controlled by the whims of Georgia Power and mother nature- can rise quite rapidly without notice, somtimes as much as an inch a minute. Needless to say if one is walking on the river bed or the rocks they need to be attentive because you can be cut off from the mainland fairly quickly by rapidly rushing water.