What's Up, Gustav?

Well it looks like we've got another hurricane in the Caribbean. Poor old Haiti is getting pounded right now with hurricane force winds. It looks like the track will have it in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon. We are talking about cleaning up around the church property this week (tying down buildings, getting rid of junk, etc.) so we can concentrate on our homes and possible evacuation should things start to deteriorate. I will keep you posted on that as soon as we know. As far as Fay goes, we just got this misty kind of rain and some wind out of that storm. I'm so glad it wasn't any worse. They were talking about major flooding of low-lying areas. Anyway, we were fortunate with that storm. Who knows what Gustav will do? Meanwhile, we begin looking at the trees around our house to decide which ones will have to go because they've gotten too tall and will end up falling on the house during a hurricane. We clean and prepare to pack up our belongings. This time I want to go to a place that has electricity and running water. A telephone would be nice, too or at least good cellphone reception. Definitely air conditioning. I about died for lack of cool air the last time. We're praying it'll dissipate. We're praying if it must make landfall, it will go into an unpopulated area. We just watch, wait, and act as necessary.

Slow Week in South Mississippi

There wasn't a whole lot going on this week. Vince was out of town from Wednesday until today, Friday. The kids and I weren't bored, however. We watched a movie on Wednesday night that arrived in our mail from Netflix. On Thursday, we ran errands and went to a CCHEA meeting for our homeschooling organization. Today Claudia, Bethany, and John came down from Wiggins to visit in the afternoon. Vince was home by 3:30, and we went out to dinner at Pizza Hut. Chad had bought Claudia an Italian Cream Cheese cake at Serendipity in Wiggins. Vince and the kids went to Winn-Dixie to get ice cream. We had cake and ice cream right there in Pizza Hut, and we gave Claudia a couple of "happies". That's about all for this week, but I will put a silly picture in here so you can at least not be totally bored.

New computer

I'm so excited. We got a new computer yesterday. It's an iMac. It's so neat. We like to play around with the pictures. It's going to be a lot of fun to play with. The old computer is our school computer. It's supposed to go up in the schoolroom, hopefully today, because otherwise the kids won't be able to do some of their work tomorrow. I'm sure they wouldn't mind.  LOL

Here you can see Anna Marie, Savannah, and I having a little fun with PhotoBooth. We've had lots of giggles over some of the funny pictures we've created.