Hunkering Down

We have learned what this term means because that is what we are doing - hunkering down - waiting for Hurricane Ike to come our way. What does one do to hunker down? You bring in all your lawn furniture, you move your breakables from the windows, you take pictures of your whole house, you pull your 72 hour kits and extra water and blankets into the closet that you may have to sleep in....and then you wait. For 80 mph winds and 5-10 inches of rain - and we are 75 miles from the coast so we are not even thinking about "storm surges". We go to church with Dr. Jim from Fox News (the only PhD meteorologist in Houston!) so we've been getting personal updates through our ward email. There is a lot of uncertainty here.

Our lovely home - it has fabulous trees and a reason we love our neighborhood, the tree lined streets. Now we wonder what our neighborhood will look like in the morning. That huge Cypress tree in the back of our house is a bit daunting.... The winds are blowing pretty strongly right now at 11pm. And the eye hasn't even hit shore. We lost power for an hour tonight but luckily its back on and we have A/C and our ceiling fans again. We are enjoying it while we have it.

So what else do you do when you are waiting for a storm? You sleep in, take a long morning walk with the dog enjoying the "calm before the storm" sunny breezy weather, make a nice breakfast, attempt to clean out your inbox, take a few conference calls (with the rest of the country and world that continue to go on with life...!), bake a peach tart and decorate the nursery. It helps balance the underlying stress of what may be to come....

Wall Candy art decals for the nursery