THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!

Okay, so I was told I should tell my story like I would tell it to Potluck, so here we go.  First of all, once the hurricane was named, it was like “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming”!  Obviously, weather people don’t get much of a chance to expound on anything because by the time they show it to you 9 million times, you would think the world is coming to an end.  I don’t mean to make light of it, but there is so much hype, you just get tire of it.   So, we went from a buzzing little island on Thursday, to a “ghost island” on Friday.  There was coffee sold, but hardly any lunch.  There were about 8 of the usual suspects on Friday, so we decided to walk down to the ocean to see the waves.  The ocean is literally 360 of my steps from the Treehouse.  The waves were roaring and quite amazing to see, but the kicker was the blowing sand!!  It pelted the dogwater out of you.  It only got part of me because I had on jeans, but Shawn, Amy and Auri had on shorts.  At least snow melts when it hits you.  Sand, on the other hand, just sticks to you and in you and in your clothes.  Later, we were silly enough to go look again.  By that time, it was raining cats and dogs, so we just got soaked.  Finally, we had enough sense to close the Treehouse and go home.  After much food and wine and card playing with the kids, Amy suggested I move my car into the middle of the cul de sac so it would NOT be hit by a tree.  “No, says I, there might be an ambulance that needs to get down the street.”  Silly me.  As you know by my previous blog, the very tree about which she was speaking, fell on my Tonka.  Anyway, we lost power at the house around 8:30 p.m., which was okay until we all went to sleep.  My goodness, how quickly your body responds to NO air conditioning – and I don’t mean in a good way.  Anyway, since I was up early anyway, I went to the Treehouse to see if anyone wanted coffee. There has never been a day in my life when I made so many people so happy at once.  Seems we were the only game in town that morning, so everybody liked us.  We then had a few folks for lunch, but the bulk was definitely in for coffee!!  Today is Tuesday, and everyone has just about cleaned up all of the branches in their yards and the city of Carolina Beach is about to start picking them up from the front of the houses.  Now we are back to beautiful weather.  However, this season extends all the way to the end of November, so stay tuned and I may be able to give you another report.  Thanks for reading.  Ricci