Watch The Trees Dance

The wind is really picking up.  Listening to it howl outside prompted me to get another short video shot.  It's only 40 minutes until the front of the hurricane force winds hit us (according to weather.com

After watching the trees sway so vigorously, it makes me wonder ...Where have the birds and squirrels are hunkered down

Hurricane Sandy First Power Outage For Us

Well we had our first power outage  it lasted about 20 Minutes and already the kids were complaining.  I would say play a game they would say we don't want to.  Play with the dogs ...No that's boring etc...

It's going to be a long couple of days when the power goes out for good.  You would think they would be use to it by now with not having cable and all.  Though I did let them play extra video games today because when the power goes out they will not be able to.

If all else fails and they can't pick something to do.  I'll make them help me clean house till they stop complaining how boring Board Games are and start entertaining themselves!

Hurricane Sandy Continues

Well the wind is picking up and you can here the gusts shaking the windows.  Almost every hour the fire station sirens go off and I find myself hoping its nothing serious...I guess it probably is or why would they call the fire station.


What should be Fall's beauty is being ripped from the trees to litter the ground

As the storm picks up, these bright dressings from the trees will soon clog the storm drains.  The streets will fill with water and then so will my basement.

If I'm lucky the power will stay on and I can vacuum and dump the water into the basement sink.  Lets face it though they are predicting the power not only to go out but to be out for a good long while.  In this case I will have to haul buckets of water up the stairs and dump them into the kitchen sink since the basement drain doesn't work with out it's electric pump to push the water up.

Hurricane Sandy Continued

According to the Weather Channel the worst won't get to us until 6 P.M.  It is suppose to last until Midnight.  Right now we have tropical storm strength winds which looks like this:

Kind of scary to think its going to get worse!

Hurricane Sandy Update

Right now we have some gusty wind and light rain from Hurricane Sandy.  So far not enough to cause the basement to flood.  Knock On Wood!!

Hurricane Sandy Hoarding?

Right now The Hurricane has me feeling like a hoarder.  All the stuff I brought up from the basement to keep it high and dry is stuck in every nook and cranny.  I guess this is a good opportunity to remove the clutter my house.

Fixed my Blogs

Hi all you may have noticed the last couple days my new posts have been showing up but when you click on it you go to a sight called Ping Blogspot.  Some how the scammer of this sight managed to get a code into my software.  The malicious code has been removed and now you can once again access my sight.

 If you have a blogger blog and are having this problem look for this line in your code
  It will be in the body of the code and have ping blogspot in it

The First Drops

Well I was outside with the dogs ..getting them one more vigorous playtime before the storm hits.  As I sat there watching them play tug of war with a fleece rope, I felt a spattering of water on my arm...  Just a little and probably not the first to have fallen but the first I noticed.  Given the size of the monster baring down upon us its an inconsequential amount the first drops of many many to come.

But there sitting on the back steps with gusts of wind blowing my hair .. I wonder to myself ...Have I done everything I can do to get ready?

I've done all the laundry, the dishes, cleaned everything off the floor in the basement and cleared a path to the sink so I can dump the shop vac.  I've moved the dehumidifiers up onto a counter top so they stay high and dry.  I've fill the camping jugs with water, and filled many many freezer bags with more water.  If the power goes out it will preserve the food a little longer and if necessary give us more water.

I've cleaned up and tied down everything in the back yard.  Moved our little car to higher ground and put our truck at the highest point of our driveway facing forward so that if we have to drive through the flooded street we don't have to back up first.  The first aid kit has been checked and everything that can be charged has been charged including some solar lanterns  which will give us 8 hours of light without killing any batteries.

If I'm lucky the storm drains will stay clear and will drain as they are suppose to but I don't think I'll have that kind of luck.  Since its Fall all those leaves are just waiting to fall into the road and get washed right into the drain.  I got a feeling it's going to be a long night tonight and an even longer day tomorrow.

The Down Side Of No Cable

Well as I have been battening down the hatches I have come upon the down side of no cable.  Hard to get updates on the bad weather.  I have been checking the internet as often as possible but its alot easier to have the TV on and listen to it while you do everything else.  What I'm picking up with the antenna is very disjointed and hard to follow.

If I owned the house I could put up a roof top antenna which is suppose to get better reception but I don't so I can't.  I'll just have to keep listening to the radio which I hate to do.  Normally I listen to Pandora a free music service with NO foul mouthed DJ  spewing whatever filth they feel like spewing.  I was in the car the other day and had the radio on and the DJ's were talking about how some people go over board with their dogs.  But nothing like this one lady.  Sooo I listened on ....MY mistake!  I will not tell you what they said ..you can probably Google it but I like to keep things family friendly around here.  Needless to say it was an after Midnight conversation that was on at 7 O' Clock in the morning with my 15 year old daughter in the back going EWWWWW Mom why would she do that.

Anyway I got off topic ...sometimes Cable TV does have it's advantages!