The Fun Continues

And the waiting goes on...

Meanwhile.

The well pump tank for the well

that runs the entire property

decided to spring a leak today.

There should be a tank in that corner.

It's sitting next to the truck.

Despite it being the Sabbath,

I'm pretty sure this qualifies as

"Ox in the mire".

Rod made a quick run to Lowes and bought

a new tank.

I'm so blessed to have a husband and son

who can literally fix anything.

Oh yeah.

And Rod has a cold.

His nose started running yesterday but

I thought it was the dust.

He and Kyle were cleaning out the office.

5 more bags of trash!

But nope, its a cold.

I made a batch of "grab and go"

protein bites.

They are DELICIOUS and good for you.

And give you a quick bite of energy.

I'm going to have to make another batch.

The problem with this hurricane taking 

SO LONG to get here,

we're going to eat all our hurricane food

before the storm hits!

The storm is now a Cat 5.

We are extremely worried about the Bahamas.

Those folks are getting pounded right now.

It will take them years and years to recover.

Meanwhile...

we are in what they like to call the 

"windshield wiper" phase.

Back / forth / east / west...

It's honestly anybody's guess where 

this thing is going to go.

Meanwhile...

As soon as the guys get the water situation

under control, they will board up the windows.

One good thing about living in this house...

we don't have very many windows.

Three large-ish windows and 1 small on the east

(front) side of the house.

Nothing on the north.

One bathroom window on the south.

And only the kitchen, laundry and patio doors

on the west (back) side.

It will take them maybe 2 or 3 hours 

to finish up boarding the windows.

(Which is WAY better than many houses...)

Once we get the windows boarded up,

we are back to "wait and see".

This map shows we have a 40% - 60% chance

of hurricane force winds.

That's pretty good.

But we are still 48+ hours out.

So we are pacing ourselves.

Prepping.

Keeping an eye on the news.

And staying calm.

(Do NOT listen to the hype on the TV.)

They are loosing their minds because it

really is a HUGE storm - the biggest many of

them have ever seen in their lives.

And this is their LIVES.

They LOVE this stuff.

So cut all the nonsense by 50% at least.

And stay calm.

We're fine.

And we might still get a new bathroom out of this.