Pragmatic Preparation 101

Over at Pam's Place a good thing is started. She pointed out September is apparently emergency preparedness month. I'll be linking to her posts about practical steps we can take to more effectively deal with emergencies. Of course I might throw in my spiritual and or comedic bits of advice also. Obviously we are putting on the full armor of God. For now - be thinking and posting about what we can do to prepare for the emergencies we know will come sooner or later. You can add tips at Pam's site or here - or we can link to one another with ideas. I'm doing better each day - some events are tougher than others but we'll get through this relying on God's strength 'cause I'm tuckered out here in Buhlaland.

Venting a bit

We've had such a wonderful Sunday -and came home to check our offices and make sure with the cold wave we'd left the heat on low. Some vandal minded soul had kicked in and destroyed our beautiful cedar front door and kind of dirtied up our offices. Didn't seem to steal anything - just did some nasty stuff. Added to that our house mail box was destroyed by random vandalism (or maybe not random) and it has been a day of assaults. Oh well - DH boarded up our front door over there and we'll order an ugly metal door to replace it - and install an alarm set up to wake the dead next time. Sheriff's office said there had been about 36 hours of juvenile crime all over the county and plenty of holiday domestic violence. All we know to do is clean up the mess and pray for the people who would do such a thing. Stinks though - really stinks!