This is the Part I'm Not Good At...

With a weather event predicted this weekend for East Texas it looks like we sit around the house. It's not quiet down to freezing yet so the event is still on the way and I'm not good at waiting on disaster.. 

I would imagine since the good folks around here are not used to such events and are scrambling around to buy toilet paper and closed toed shoes it's pretty crazy in town. We live like we are camping most of the time, which means doing outside things such as sitting on the porch working crossword puzzles and playing tuba we are ready as we can be for something like this. Since it has not hit that's what makes me antsy. 

I have been busy as I can be to counter that feeling this morning. There is some spitting rain but I did my exercise walk, an regimen I have adopted for this new year. There's a first world problem unfolding with the hot tub.  A service visit yesterday to fix it turned out to revel another part needed to be ordered and while that's nothing a fistful of cash won't fix it means no one gets a polar bear badge tonight. The service guy advised draining the tub to protect against freezing and also make repair easier when he returns. I do that by siphoning which takes a while so I made busy and have that process under way before the expected hard freeze. 

I plan on slow cooked ribs on the grill so there's that for later.

All that done Cathy is still sleeping so it's not tuba time yet. We wait and not just on her to wake but what the weather brings. Hopefully we don't have to leap into action too fast but action is what we do.  We camp and fish often so there is plenty of cookers, firepits, a fireplace, axes, chainsaws, propane tanks, spare gasoline, warm clothes, boots and more to address any emergency. We do have a generator and it probably won't power the whole house but it would run the freeze, fridge and probably the camper where we could snuggle up if worse came to worst which is where I do best rather than just sitting around or at least I used to. You know what they say, another year older and deeper in debt which could mean from any account. 

Next weekend is expected to be bad also. The weekend after that is a camping trip to Galveston Island State Park for (I'll be at the free parades Feb. 7th) Mardi Gras. It's important we survive this because nothing cleanses the palate like going ape crazy over plastic beads on string and I'm good at that.