The day before evacuating, blissfully unaware.
We are home and all is as we left it. I have lots of thoughts and even some suggestions to share, but my brain is tired and foggy so that will have to wait. The main thing I must say right now is that our hearts are full of gratitude to God and to all who have been praying for us and sending such kind thoughts. We are so, so very thankful.
Thank you, everyone. Back soon.
We are safe in our evacuation location. We watched all the coverage of the landfall and have been getting regular communication from the military throughout. We've also been hearing from some of our church family who stayed in the area.
So far, so good. It appears everyone has made it through pretty well. The hurricane approached the coast as a category 3, but was beginning to weaken, with the back side of the storm having completely fallen apart by the time it made landfall as a strong category 2. With the structure of the storm essentially cut in half, once what was left of the eye passed over, there wasn't much more to the storm. That reduced by hours the length of time everything had to withstand damaging winds. It makes a huge difference whether a structure has to withstand three hours of hurricane force winds or six. The storm was also moving along quickly.
It doesn't look like we will be headed home today as the base is closed to all but emergency and recovery personnel, but as soon as the gates reopen, we will be on the road, praying we find everything as we left it.
I know y'all want a werewolves update! They're doing well. They have a travel pen that they sleep in at home, so they are used to having their little fort and all their stuff from home go with them. Butterfly hates the car and howls for a while until she wears herself out, but other than that, they travel very well. They're both eating and snoozing.
Thank you all so much for all of your kind words, well wishes, and prayers. We appreciate them so much.
We're evacuating. I draw the line at a direct hit from a category 3 hurricane.
Prayers for all those in its path.
We are ready for the hurricane and praying we all remain safe in our homes. Friday night will be a long one. I will check in afterwards as soon as I can.
This is not even all of my Halloween stuff. I have more finished. I have more in the finishing pile. I have more in the to-do notebook.
I think I might need to concentrate on just plain fall for a while. Lol.
The large house in the center is from Michael's several years ago. The smaller houses on either side are from Dollar Tree this year. The trees are from Hobby Lobby.
So the sewing room is all decked out for Halloween and I am up to my eyebrows in all things stitchy. Stay tuned for updates!
It may still be summery outside, but y'all know that inside Wonderful HQ we aggressively pretend it's fall! The house is decorated, the sewing room is in progress, and there has even been some finishing and framing (gasp)! Brew up your favorite cozy beverage, snuggle down in front of the fan, and pretend with us!
Tiny Halloween Village from the 2024 Just Cross Stitch special Halloween issue
Low-ish Carb Snack Cake Recipe (the one in the picture is made with Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips... we cut back on carbs where we can so we can eat real chocolate!)
Bonus sneak peek of my Autumn Tiny House (remember my Spring Tiny House?)
More favorites to share! This is an ongoing series of bird designs from Ukrainian designer Stitchy Princess. I have a number of her designs and have stitched her swampy sampler, but these birds are my favorite! Look how pretty!
There's one more design in the series, English Robins, but I skipped that one since we don't have those here. It's very pretty, though.
Hope you find something in her shop you like!
Happy Stitching!