Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Historical, mini disaster, interesting conclusion to a miracle

I will first start off with what I will call our mini disaster since it was not worth contacting our insurance company about with a thousand dollar deductable on homeowner's.
I awoke rather early this morning just after six A.M. earlier than I had been, but back to my old usual.
Anyway, it took a while for sunup since that is when I finally opened the shades and turn off the house lights, and when I did what I saw disturbed me.

One of the very large potted palms at the end of our swimming pool decking was lying on its side with its pot broken. I looked around a bit more and noticed that down on the dock our glider was on its side hitting the miniature lighthouse, and that it was nearly knocked over by it, and one of our table chairs was nearly blown into our dock sink. It took me a few hours later to realize that also our shed's rolled roofing had one row off completely on the water side, and another crumpled on the side facing the house. Our rain gage had been blown into the pool, with many flowers, leaves, but all natural debris. I also noticed today that finally our year old tangelo tree had blossoms, and that was some good news.

I was able to right the plant, put the chair back and push the glider off the lighthouse but not able to put it up into position, I figured when my husband awoke we could do that together. Then I got working on the rain gage with the strainer on its pole, next I removed all the large floating debris. I examined my accomplishments and felt pretty good that I can still do some things.

When my husband awoke he started calling home stores for prices for the shed roof repairs supplies, but in the meantime we still had enough of the same rolled roofing to suffice, until the bigger job could be done, and so he did the temporary repairs.

In between all this we had our TV on watching history being made, of course!
It gave me chills and pride, and slight fear for their safety when the new President Obama and our new First Lady Michelle Obama got out of their tank of a car to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to let the cheering crowds see them. Once I realized that they were well protected I worried for their health about them getting colds without hats on and Michelle in nearly bare, just stocking legs; I guess once a Mom always a Mom and they are the first presidential family younger than me.
And it was scary to hear that Edward Kennedy had a seizure at the luncheon they all went to, but happy to hear later that he was fine and it wasn’t due to his brain cancer, but just due to being tired, I suppose that’s OK at 76 years old.

Nearly last but not least US Airways is paying each and every one of the passengers of the Miracle in the Hudson Flight 1549 crash landing survivors each are getting 5K plus new airline tickets. That’s nice, but I also hope that if any did get checked out at the local hospital I do hope that was paid for too. And let’s not forget the one passenger with the two broken legs; they should take care of that too! Anyway, that is still a very nice thing to do.

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