Sunday, August 17, 2008

Do you believe in fairies?

I do! I do!
I'm sure you all remember that fanciful question that was part of the play Peter Pan.
It referred to the act of believing, and if you were to clap your hands together it would summon Tinkerbell the fairy of all fairies that made dreams come true.

I had the greatest of pleasures of portraying Peter Pan as a child of 12 for my camp. That play from the very first time I saw it with Mary Martin back in the 1950's was a magical entree into the world of knowing that all things were possible if one would just believe!

So everyone out there clap those hands over and over and maybe Tropical Storm Fay will hear you and go away!
Wouldn’t that be wonderful if it was true? Don’t we all wish?
She is fickle they are saying, and as of yet has not gotten that much stronger, and just perhaps if we are lucky and believe enough she will fizzle that would be great.

And just in case she doesn't listen preparations have started all over our land today.
We personally have battened down some hatches, and more tomorrow if Fay is going to be stubborn and insist on misbehaving. Cash is on hand. We do live on the coast the southwest coast of Florida, so we are well insured property wise, but you must prepare anyway even if we end up leaving.
Fay is wobbling with her ultimate destination still uncertain from 100 miles away in either direction; we all are getting ready.

Storm surge is to be anywhere from 4-5 feet and should arrive in daylight on the afternoon of the 19th, sounds safe to me; we are at a 9 foot height above sea level.
But all this is supposition and no one really knows for sure much like those dikes that were supposed to hold back the water in New Orleans after Katrina.

Hard not to think that way when you have already experienced one that personal.
Charley was the one for me, and has changed everyone that was here and went through it.

Clapping louder now!
You try it too!
Nothing to lose.
What the heck.
Go for it!
Count down to whatever might come...
Another quiet Good NIGHT!
I hope.

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