Not A Banner Day . . . .

Some days you eat the bear.
Some days the bear eats you.

Image from Karen at The Graphics Fairy.

Today?  Not the best day.  The bear seems to be winning.
Election results?  No comment.
Weather?  It's snowing!  Just what New Jersey and New York need.
Driving?  My minivan is rear ended by a Saturn.
Our roof?  Turns out it will need to be replaced and the
starting estimate is more than my first job's annual salary.

But you know what?

We're still lucky, and that bear won't keep winning.

My sister sent more pictures of what

Sandy did at our beach house out on Long Island.

 Side yard -- full of debris from our neighbor's broken down

bulkhead that was destroyed in Hurricane Irene and should

have been repaired, but was not.  Oh well.

Now that neighbor can play Pick-Up-Sticks with what's left.

The dock, minus its steps, and looking as tipsy as a certain blonde
ABC anchorwoman appeared on election night.

Third floor, some fascia board missing its trim.

And the crawl space, flooded.

All in all, not bad.  Fixable.  Yes, lucky.

Those who need our consideration and prayers are the tens of 
thousands of people in NY and NJ who are without homes.
And the hundreds of thousands who are in their homes,
but still without power or heat. 

Some coastal people are evacuating because of

Winter Storm Athena, dropping rain and snow and quite possibly

another storm surge in the region.  Just ten days after Sandy.

Athena is a Nor'easter.

That's one very nasty kind of storm.

Why is it that every summer I totally forget what winter is like?

-- Cass