Weekend with Hurricane Irene

My Front Yard

We survived and the power is back on...Whoohooo!!! Hurricane Irene came in on Saturday night, she brought 20 inches of water into my attached garage, 4 inches from entering my house. She blew 30 inches into my shed and back garage and she brought me much stress! Saturday our power went out at about 11:00 am and returned today, Monday, at 1:00pm. You forget how much you "Love" electricity. Cold showers, one TV (yes, one TV), a lamp and no AC. My house had extention cords running everywhere from here and there and out to the generator on the back deck. And sleeping to the hum of generators in the night. I am thankful that we had only minor damage and that no one was hurt. My heart goes out to those with damage and that have lost loved ones.
Tonight I will sleep in the cool AC and get up in the morning to a nice warm shower. Life is good!!!


My Baby taking cover under the wing of a B-17




Even a Hurricane could not stop the Postman..thank you Postman

Hurricane Irene

Sunday morning (2:00am) we are expecting with be hit with Hurricane Irene. Right now it's a Cat. 2 that is predicted to hit us. They have closed the bases, stores, schools, roads and started the evacuation process for low lying areas. The ships have left, the roads are busy and well we all are preparing for her arrival. Here at my house, we have started the preparations. The lawn stuff is all cleaned up, we will be picking everything in the garages up and moving cars, motorcyles and trailers out of harms way. This is an every year occassion. It seems, that when we get the alert and we go into "Hurricane" mode. The hubby will do his part and I do mine and we will be ready..I guess. As ready as we can be. The work email went out to prepare for Irene and we did. Everything is wrapped in plastic or unplugged or closed or shut off. Looks like Irene is going to give us a big punch...that brings me to mention that my Grandmother was named Irene. Nannie Irene as we all called her. She was quite the lady. She would stand up for us to anyone! She had a tough life, she lost her husband in the war when my mother was 4 yrs old and then raised and supported my mother all alone for all those years. She never remarried. I remember her saying that she married for love the first time and would marry for money the next. And she never found anyone with enough money, so she never remarried. She was probably the strongest willed woman I ever met! She and I had a special bond, I am the first grandchild and since being the oldest I was able to do lots of things with her. So with Hurricane Irene coming, I feel like it's a little piece of my Nannie saying, "Ok ya'll, you better straighten up and fly right!" (She loved tha expression). Thanks Nannie we will...love and miss you!!! Everyone take care and be safe. I'll keep you updated.

Day After Vacation

Yesterday I got home from 11 days away on vacation...(I'll post more about my wonderful vacation later) and went back to work today. Now I need another vacation!!!! Waking up at 5:45am, driving that 25 minute drive, going into the office and sitting in my desk chair...well, I just wanted to go home. Then of all things, I forgot my password...yup..I sure did. So had to wait about an hour to get the IT guru to "unlock" me. After that, getting the week long updates, I was finally able to get into my emails. And as we like to say, I was in email jail! Had so many emails that I was locked out. After 2 1/2 hours of reading, filing, deleting emails I was able to send and email....finally! Thankfully it was lunch time by then and I got outta there for about 45 minutes. The afternoon flew by. And then ended on a great note. So I decided that coming back to work after a long vacation is almost as stressful as leaving for vacation. Tomorrow will be better...I promise. Now tonight, what to do? I'm not motivated at all to do anything!!!!

Bike Crash

I've been running for over a year now and was getting bored, so I asked the hubby to put my bike back together. A few years ago my bike had been borrowed by a friend. So hubby ordered new brakes, gears and tires. He was so proud of all his new creation. I decided after dinner one night I would ride it. The hubby explained all the new gears and brakes to me and off I go...and then CRASH. I was on the bike a total of 30 seconds, there I was riding, then all I remember was a mail box, the 3 ft. ditch and I was on the ground! Skinned up my knee and leg. Once I realized what I had done, I got up, checked on my bike, cleaned up my leg and got back on the bike. I had to show the hubby that I really could ride a bike. :) And yes I did. The second time was a charm. I rode around my neighborhood, about 3 miles, got home with blood running down my leg and my knee throbbing terribly. Cleaned myself up by taking a shower, WOW did that hurt. I picked asphalt and gravel out of my knee for a half hour. The next day was fun, going to work with the big bandage on my leg, well needless to say my new name is "Grace" at work. Oh well, don't worry it's not going to deter me from riding again. It's almost 2 weeks later and I am almost healed completely. But the next time I ride, I will be very careful and will use pads and a helmet! Happy Riding...