We Are Prepared...I Think

We spent our weekend preparing for Hurricane Sandy.  It is supposed to be a monster storm.  We went to Target yesterday and got stocked up on canned goods, batteries, flashlights, and water.  Then we went home and spent the rest of the day raking and bagging leaves.  My dad asked me why we were doing all of that work when the storm could blow them away.  We decided to bag up the leaves so that they won't clog our drains.  We ended up bagging about 30 bags of leaves and we still have some left on the trees.  We also did a lot of laundry because if we lose power, it may be awhile before we can wash our clothes.

Today, we decided to take a trip to the farmer's market for apples.  It may be our last chance to get farmer's market apples.  Then we went to the grocery store to pick up a few more supplies.  We have the basement set up and ready for us to spend the day there on Tuesday.  Our biggest fear is that a tree is going to fall on our house.  (If you've been to our house, you know that it is a real fear!  We have over 16 tall trees in our yard.)

My hope is that this storm will not be as bad as they are predicting.  Hopefully we have done enough to be ready for it!

Here are some pictures of our leaf raking adventure yesterday!