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Some stories of my house sitting experiences.

I have enjoyed most of my house sitting experiences. The reason I started house sitting was to get away from home - yes, run away I guess. Somewhere where no one knew me, no one could phone me - I seldom answered my mobile phone, and never gave ANYONE the landline number.

Hurricane Gustav - Heading for New Orleans?

Weather interests me and I track it in the news. Right now, I'm watching the path of what could become Hurricane Gustav in the Gulf of Mexico. Weather scientists predict landfall as a hurricane somewhere between the Florida peninsula and Texas, with New Orleans right in the middle. The strange thing is it's three years nearly to the day since Katrina struck.