The Hobbit Hole XXIV - Sand and Stone and Pool and Dell...

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[HairOfTheDog]

Oh don't be so sure you'll find sanity on FR... The whole forum is a tempest. everyone's cranky complaining and pointing fingers, LCS.

But we're still sane here, mostly, if we don't let them bug us.

[SuziQ]

Glad your friend has located his family. SirKit and I have been sitting here trying to figure out how we can help folks. It only hit me this morning just how hard hit my older sister's family was. She and her husband have lost their house, though they still have a little rental house on that property in which they can live. They're both retired so they still have their incomes. Their two older children however have lost everything. They both live and work in NO; Natalie's husband ran a family owned business suppying produce and food products to the restaurants in town. Natalie worked at a Seminary, and had a thriving portrait photography business. Kenneth worked at the Aquarium, and did construction on the side, but he and his wife also owned a house in Waveland and all that's left is the pilings. Kenneth's ex-wife, who is still a member of the family, as far as we're concerned and her new husband and son lived in Slidell. Her husband is a jeweler and owned an antique store in the French Quarter. Now they all can get employment elsewhere, because they are resourceful folks, but they literally have to start from the ground up. At least they owned the ground on which these dwellings were located, so they only have to re-build the structures.

Natalie and her husband brought both their cars out of NO which is good thing because when they got to H'burg, Natalie parked her car across the street from her grandmother's house, and during the storm a tree fell on it! So at least they have SOME wheels. Before Katrina hit, all the kids had planned a week's vacation together in Ft. Walton Beach. Alice and her husband actually went on over there when they left Slidell last Sunday. They decided to go ahead and keep that vacation date because there's nothing they can do about their situations at this point anyway. I'm sure there's a lot of mental energy buzzing there this week, figuring out what they can do in the near future.

Our family is blessed in that even though many are in dire straits, the others of us are in a position that we can do something for them to help them get back on their feet. I pray for the others who do not have folks who can help them and have to depend on bureaucrats. God help them!

[RMDupree]

How devastating.

But like we all keep saying, at least they have their lives.

I'm going to watch Little Bear with my girls for a while. See everyone later!

[HairOfTheDog]

SuziQ, I can't imagine. Prayers for their good fortune pulling life back together.

[Overtaxed]

OK....got the front weeds trimmed. I think I'll try to re-seed the bare spots this fall. But first I have to pick up the concrete rubble that thesunroomguys left behind.

[JenB]

That's just horrifying. I don't really have anything to lose at this point but stuff, I can't imagine working and building a life and then losing everything overnight.

[SuziQ]

Tori and her son Zack are safe! Just heard from Tori's daughter in law. Tori's home was not damaged, and they have plenty of food and water, but like most, no electricity.

Thanks everyone for your prayers, now y'all can shift them to other folks who haven't been so fortunate.

[Corin Stormhands]

That's great news. Does that mean your family is now all accounted for?

[SuziQ]

The only one we haven't heard about is my brother Pat. He lives in H'burg, so he wasn't in a real danger zone. It's just that the phones and electricity have been out so it's hard to catch up with people. My brother George was going to try to contact him this weekend.

[osagebowman]

That is great news, all safe and accounted for. The healing and rebuilding will take time.

[osagebowman]

heh, anything green will work for a lawn. hmm. concrete rubble, good filler for the low spots and handy for flinging at the bushy tailed tree rats. :-)

[Overtaxed]

I'm building up a pretty respectable pile of rubble.

[2Jedismom]

QT was the first to lower there's here, too.

Steve would love to volunteer...wonder if the city will ask him?

Our church is purchasing a food trailer, where they actually prepare and distribute food, in association with the North American Mission Board Disaster Relief department of the Southern Baptists. *I* would really love to be in on that...prepping food and passing it out...but it isn't the time. My time will come, however...some day.

[2Jedismom]

Matthew has his friend Jeremy over...they are doing the swimming/Xbox thing...(You know Jeremy, who's brother has leukemia). Steve took Joshua bike riding on a trail that Steve want's to check out to see if he can ride it to work.

I wanted Matthew to be able to spend a little time with his friend alone...Joshua is very outgoing and tends to usurp Matthew's friend's attention. This gives Matthew some one to one time with a buddy.

Jeremy is such a good kid, too...and is almost as fanatical about Star Wars as Matthew and can at least carry on a conversation about it with him! LOL!!

They've been eating ice cream sandwiches!

[2Jedismom]

Aldi's white bread is 49 cents today, 2 for the price of one! Their wheat bread is 2 for 1 too...

At least it is at our Aldis...I bought 4 loves and am going to go back and get some more to freeze.

My word, I love that store.

[JenB]

You bought four loves? Sheesh, one's more than most folk can handle.

;-P

[2Jedismom]

Uh. I bought 4 loaves.

[2Jedismom]

heh heh!! You beat me to it!

[2Jedismom]

I'm drying Matthew's Sunday school jeans...

~sigh~

It's a nice sound! :-)

[SuziQ]

So good they have friends who share interests. Nice, too, for Matthew to have that one on one time with his friend.