September 2003 Archives

Bloggin' from Williamsburg and what a delight it is. We are "here and now" at Isabel's insistence. A short walk in any direction reveals evidence of her wrath. They were apparently hard-hit down here, which is how we ended up visiting this particular week. First Isabel chased us out of our Myrtle Beach plans and back to the safety of Virginia; that safety quickly withered at the fierce hand of Isabel and we were pressed to delay our visit. Yesterday's news is an ongoing current event here.

Colonial history prevails in spite of a hurricane, though, and the fortitude of our founding fathers (and mothers :-)) is on display in CW. Huzzah! The weather could not be more perfect. The air is fresh and breezy and the temperature, divine! Our feet feel like hamburger, but our hearts bravely lead on in the path of many a history lover before us! Godspeed!

today's forecast cries out for a nice hot latte with a dollop of velvety foam
will shortly drown my sorrows in my java
which should effectively battle this bit of fatigue and "WTHITAF" syndrome
aaaaaaah... life is good again ;-)

one of those 70's movie themes that gets stuck in your head (ala poseidon adventure)

so we survived... they're saying this was the storm of our generation... whatever
i thought agnes was way worse
but i was only 12 or 13 then... what do i know?

we camped out at mil's since she has a bigger house AND a basement
she ended up without power there all night and still no sign of it yet today

stepping outside this morning the first thing i noticed was the wonderful fragrance
of all those fresh-snapped green leaves and limbs
it looked like a tree-chipper truck drove by and sprewed it's output everywhere
there were numerous large limbs and even a few trees down
cable was out when i returned home this morning but is already restored (to my grateful surprise!)
we did lose less than a dozen shingles (grrrrr)
but fared well otherwise
we have power and water (and cable! yeah!) so i can only be thankful today
the river flooded just .2 miles from here and left a couple boat docks broken and washed up into yards
all of the remaining docks there were still under water this afternoon
even so, the damages are minimal all things considered

honestly, it's been a kinda fun adventure ;-)
and now let's see if hurricane kate gives isabel some friendly competition ;-)

who couldn't love this sweet girlie?

she brought her own brand of sunshine to our dreary "isabel" morning :-)
love you, emmagirl!

Maybe they just haven't had their morning coffee yet. It looks like some legislators just have too much time on their hands... they would be better put to the plow... or hammer, as the case may be.

(cuz heaven knows I can't think of anything brilliant to say)

Tell me how much you have suffered and I will tell you how much you have loved.
– Helmut Theilicke

there just aren't words...