Riding the Wave Until Tomorrow

We're holding our breaths and sitting like ducks playing Russian roulette as Ike takes the same projected path Rita took just three years ago and which Audrey took over 50 years ago.

Cameron Parish has been evacuated. Calcasieu Parish schools have been closed for the reminder of the week.  We sit and wait and watch and pray...again.

I'm not one for much blogging about evacuation scenerios. You just can't "blog" about those. You have to sit and talk them through with friends who have experienced them with you. Like my friend Kimberly and I and all the other moms did last Friday at the ballet class while sitting in the studio's lobby.

Kimberly shares a little of her Hurrication on her blog and another Louisiana lover of picture books, Dianne de Las Casas, gives a thorough evacuation account on her blog for those interested in the nitty-gritty details: Story Connection

Speaking of Dianne, check out this post about her upcoming book The Cajun Cornbread Boy (scroll down until you see the cover). Years ago I watched and heard Dianne present this wonderful story at our local library. As soon as she finished the spicy retelling to an awed audience of little cornbread eaters, I turned to my mother and said, "Now that's a book just waiting to get published."

Do I have the gift of foresight or what?

I'm so proud of Dianne because I know how hard she has worked and toiled to see this book in print and I know she has many more books and plans ready to pop! out of her Cajun oven.

Now, speaking of books...

For the month of September, the girls and I have been reading The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill.  Love this book! We're also reading chapter by lovely chapter of Little House in the Big Woods because I want my youngest daughter to fall in love with family life the same way we did.

But these books don't exactly wrap around our current state of affairs like the hurricanes are doing; unless you count the setting of Miss Agnes which is Alaska, so there's a good link to one of the main characters in our current political election.

So I've pulled two more books off our bookshelves that we will read through the rest of September and October:

My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt and Galveston's Summer of the Storm by Julie Lake

Hopefully, by then, the waters of the Atlantic will have gone to sleep and the ghosts of hurricanes past will be at rest.

Comments

[Tracey Klebieko]

Hi, I'm up way too late getting clothes washed and ready and making plans for what needs to come with us when we leave the area south of Houston, tomorrow. My biggest regret...that I can't take all my books with me. :o( I'm praying that our home will be spared and my extensive library will be protected and intact. And also that we don't spend hours and hours in the car to reach our destination which is what happened during rita.

God Bless You, Kay.
I hope Sulphur and Lake Charles are spared any bad weather over the weekend.

Tracey K.

[Tracey]

God Bless you - Cay!