I’m back ~ Hurricane Watch

We just got our phone/internet connected this morning, it was a problem at the main office for Pete’s sake. Anyway, we’re glad to have it back.

Last night I woke up and started thinking about the possible hurricane that might be coming our way, and could hardly get to sleep for thinking about it.  We’ve not been tracking it since we didn’t have a connection, and the last we’d seen was when I was at work on Sat. morning.  We checked first thing after being connected, and YIKES! Hopefully, she’ll make a northeasterly turn but who knows.  All of us on the east coast will be watching Irene.  It was the first time to see M as one of the symbols.  They’ve always said H before.  M means Major with winds of at least 110.  Wilma blasted us with maximum sustained winds of 110 for hours and I was scared I can tell you that.  Our 4 felines have never been through a hurricane, all being born since Wilma.  They’re going to freak if she blasts us, instead of skirting us.

We filled up jugs with water this morning and stuck them in the freezer in case we lose power, we’ll at least have some ice to keep things for a bit.

My stomach is doing rumbles and my mind is remembering Frances, Jeanne and Wilma, the three hurricanes that we went through within 16 months. Frances and Jeanne were back to back like a week or so.  Wilma was at the end of Oct. almost the end of hurricane season in 2005.

We will have to batten down the hatches, especially is Irene looks like she might hit us.  We’ll be putting up our homemade hurricane shutters which DH cut heart cuts outs into so that we’d be able to see out. They’re made of different bits of plywood etc. that we had on hand and used.  We have them so we can bolt them to the windows. We have them all marked as to where they go. It is a lot of work and I don’t look forward to it.  But alas.

I am embarrassed to admit I am afraid, especially since I believe God takes care of us.  But, I’m human and err every day.

Do keep the east coast and even the islands south of us in your thoughts and prayers.

We keep having rain and more rain, so are definitely not in drought conditions any longer. We should get a LOT from Irene also, even if she skirts us.

Ok, here are three pics, this first one is one of my passion flower vine blooms.  I just love these flowers.

Here is spiderwort.

I took a pic of myself in this mirrored piece that DH curbside shopped across the street when people moved out. It does have a couple of chips on edges, but is pretty neat looking anyway.  It is supposed to hang horizontal.  We do NOT have any walls big enough in the house for this, not sure what we are going to do with it. The pieces of mirror have beveled edges, and are glued to a piece of thin interior plywood. I’m hoping they will fall off, so that I can have individual pieces of mirror to hang here and there.  Right now they are stuck tight.

That’s it for now.  It’s time to get some lunch.

I’ll post again later.  Just wanted to let you know we’re back online.  I called the phone co. and we got a whopping $6.95 credit for not having service for 6 days.

Hope you are all doing well.