OCTOBER
I can't believe the first week of October is history.
Wasn't it just summer?

As the saying goes, "time flies when you're having fun".

I hope your days are fun-filled.

Here in Northeast PA many people aren't having fun. They are trying to re-coup their homes and lives.

Our area was hit hard with flooding from Tropical Storm Lee, and that was just a week or so after being hit with Hurricane Irene.

One good thing happened, and that was the levee system protecting Kingston and Wilkes Barre held after heroic efforts by many.

My husband and I were on vacation in Florida when Lee hit here at home.
Our two sons were evacuated from their homes in Kingston, along with a friend who lives in Swoyersville.

They all stayed at our home high and dry in the Back Mountain.
After a few days they were allowed back in their homes, because the levee did what it was supposed to.

I was very happy with the gift of modern technology. While we were in Florida I was able to watch live broadcasting via the Internet from our local TV stations WNEP and WBRE's web-pages. Many thanks to them for doing that.

Now we are back home. I sometimes wonder if it pays to go away.
It takes a lot to get ready to go and a lot more to do when you come back home.

Yeah, it is worth it. Anytime I can get to spend a few weeks in Florida is A-OK with me.
Even though while we were there, my husband's back went out on him, and I had food poisoning. We survived and enjoyed the rest of the trip.

We finally got caught up on outside chores, like grass cutting and more grass cutting.
Tomorrow we'll clean out the bluebird houses, so the bluebirds will have nice apartments to build nests for their new broods in the spring.

Then it's time to batten down the hatches for winter. Now that is something I'm not looking forward to.

I sure do hope we don't get the same amount of snow that we had in rain this summer.I don't even want to think about how many feet of snow is equal to the many inches that fell.

Whatever comes our way, we will deal with, since we come from hearty stock here in Northeast PA.