10-23-05

Looks like we’re going to get wet

Smiling to myself secretly when the news meantions lake okeechobee, hurricane warnings and the keys, but not vero! And not realizing that okeechobee is only about 60 miles SW of us…which would leave us either in the eye’s path, or worse, on the northern side of the eye wall (which is worse than the eye, you get all the winds)…i realized my mistake.

We went to skipper’s house to pick up a footlocker for the baby stuff (which is the most sacred things I own at the moment, followed by the computer and a bunch of paintings and canvases) it was odd to see a good deal of the town boarded and shuttered up.

David taped up the windows in the condo and we moved anything sacred into the guest bathroom, which next to ours is the only other room in the house not on an outside wall with a window. Solaris helped in her usual way…by kicking me.

And so it is my luck…Sitting here with my jaw in shambles, my first hurricane coming, and pregnant, it will make for an interesting story to tell Solaris, 13 years down the road when i give her the “I gave you life, I can take it away” speech. Its not as terrible as it sounds however, so i realize that i am still as strong as I have been.