NOT a name that I will forever hold dear.
I had just gotten back from the show in Connecticut, finished the filming of the Midsummer app (fascinating experience... I'll let you know how it comes out!) when we started getting ominous warnings about a hurricane that might come up the coast. Well, you all know the rest of the story.
We spent last weekend trying to get the house and yard ready... trash cans, planters, anything that could become a projectile, brought inside. All remaining peppers harvested. Herbs cut back (to dry, just in case the plants were destroyed). Every pot and pan and bottle filled with water (I'm WAY too cheap to buy water!). A run to the store for non-perishables (since, for some reason, the refrigerator requires electricity to run!!!!!). A check of the candle and battery drawers (full!)... Locating the storm radio Debbie sent us for the last huge storm (yeah, that Al Gore's crazy! There's NOTHING changing about the climate!!!! Hurricanes in Yonkers... happens every day!))
And last but not least: COOKING (OK... it's what I do when I'm nervous/scared/happy/sad... you get the picture). But the weather gods smiled on Yonkers this time... very little rain, some terrifying wind... but almost no damage whatsoever... although the tree laying across some live power lines in front of the house remains a bit unnerving...
But we're well... and dry... and powered. But it looks like our Metro North train line is out for a while... and the poor subway took a real beating... So we will remain in Yonkers... unbelievably grateful that we were spared this time... and heartsick for those suffering.
The following few posts are things we harvested early and some "storm food," as Amy Richards (former owner of our wonderful house on the hill) calls it...