Thursday around noon

Good news is that hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a category 2.  I slept in...havent gotten much sleep lately...and woke up to a wonderful, windy morning.  First time I've been able to sit on the deck in months without burning up.   The wind continues to pick up but nothing crazy.  I took the bottles off of my gazebo as a precaution...don't want bottles flying thru the air.  The cats haven't seemed to notice a thing.

At work yesterday, we closed at 4 pm.  I'm going to start cooking some stuff in case I lose power.  So far so good...