Isabel continues to head directly towards us. She’s already given the Outer Banks a good pounding, and even far inland we’re getting a lot of wind and rain from her edges.
Schools are closed for the day; last night the kids and I dragged everything from the back porch into the basement, and put the trash and recycling bins into the shed. Now all we can do is wait and see what she’s going to do. Wish us luck!
Right now we’re all keeping a wary eye on Isabel, who is marching ominously past Puerto Rico at the moment. If we’re lucky, she’ll hook a right and head north up the coast; if we’re not, she’ll head for shore and drop by for a visit. Either way we’re in for a lot of rain over the next few days.
Finally got my watch fixed. It’s languished in my closet for years, because the cost to repair it was higher than the cost of buying a new watch. But after hunting for years for a watch I liked as well as this one, I decided I’d spent as much in time and effort looking for a new one as I could have just fixing the one I had. So I took it to a little shop in Sears and they fixed it for me.
I was regaling my spouse with this information, happily displaying my fixed watch. “How much did it cost to fix it?” he wondered.
“A hundred dollars,” I answered. “Which I know is more than the watch itself is worth.”
“Not any more,” he pointed out.
I love the way he thinks.