Monday, September 08, 2008

after Gustav...


I know it's been a while now: we haven't had tv or 'net access or whatnot for more than a week.
Gustav ravaged our area (Baton Rouge and points north a east and west and whatnot) and only today have I had internet access. You see here Will tied the beehives to the ground. And they held. We had pulled the boxes full of honey off of the hives and spun out the honey in the powerless vacuum that was our home for a week...also, I must say, Will made sure to pick up what crab-apples had not blown from here to kingdom-come; and made jelly - and I helped pull the pears off the trees (while dodging wasps) and there are canned pears (but there is a full hamper of pears and who knows what will become of them).
We are all very tired and trying to play catch-up. Tonight, Ike seems less of a threat and that is a very, VERY good thing. I thought Ike could not come here, because that would just be wrong.
Good thing the garden was 'between seasons'. The herb beds are blown over sideways, and there will be no planting for now; but we did pretty well, considering. more later.

2 comments:

  1. Glad to hear you came through it OK and hope everything will be back to normal for you soon.

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  2. Glad to hear you and the bees "weathered" the storm ok. I just posted my Gustav blog and was checking to see if you had one as well :) I prefer never to look at a rake again!

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