Woke up to a lot of rain today and rain all day and tomorrow and so-on.This will be a good day to cook, sew and read. I am going to make some giftees to take to Pomeroy and cut some quilt, haven't deceided which one but will probably be a Halloween tabletopper or harvest tabletopper or both.
Cooking will be grilling under the patio cover, bake a cake, make cookies and make a pasta salad. Steve needs to eat. I had the best 0 point dessert last night, 1 cup pumpkin(can) pumpkin pie spices and splenda, put in microwave for 2 minutes, very tastie.
Yesterday was a looooooooooong day, didn't sew, ate left overs, watched football, Houston kicked the Cowgirls butts! and read a new book. Went to bed at 9:30. Problem is we have been home since April and I am ready to roll in the big bus. Had enough being home, Time to go .
Enough yayaya
Katrina revisited, 5 years ago we were boarded up in our home waiting for the storm to hit. It did, I started hearing trees coming down, praying they wouldn"t take our lives and home. They fell in my neighbors yard and took out his Studio, fence etc. I could hear terrible noices but had all the windows covered with 3/4 inch plywood. Trees limbs and debre was hitting my flat roof. No electricity, no air, hot and scared.
It lasted about 12 hours.Lines down and poles just missing, a real war zone, but no flooding in my area. We had to get the chain saws out to clear paths in case of emergency. My son Hank couldn't get out of his area, 40 gaint pine trees were blocking the roads, he had a gaint oak in his big house but had a gas generator for electricity. My younger son had a backhoe and a saw so he was out trying to clear our roard way.I had a battery fan that I wasn't sharing and was checking on neighbors as best as I could get around. Then weeks of heat, mosquito, trying to find food, we hooked a hose to our neighbors and ran their water backwards through our system, Tolets then worked. We cooked for the linemen who ncame from all over the US to help. We cooked the foods from the freezers as they defrosted and feed them in the front yard at night, also took their dirty clothes to Beth's mothers in Baton Rouge and would wash for 243 hours stright taking turns sleeping a few hours. This went on for weeks. Enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I won't ever be here in Louisiana when a storm comes in the Gulf. We keep the bus fueled and packed and will roll. I have 45 gaint pine and oak trees that can fall and don"t have 45,000 dollars to take them out so I will not be here.
Hope I gave you a picture of what it was like. We are tuff, I have lived through Betsey in 65, Camille, Katrina, Rita,....NO MORE TO OLD and SMARTER
hugs Patticake
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