With a conga line of hurricanes and tropical storms passing near Hawaii this week, I'm doing just fine. I finally have a few days off, so I'm changing out last year's emergency food (expires August 2024) and restocking my stash with new food expiring in July 2025. So, I know exactly what I'll be eating for a week next July, if I don't have any reason to get into my emergency stash before then!

One good thing about the impending storms, is that I feel like I can skip washing my windows this week, yay! I plan to use that energy instead toward throwing out old papers, and junk that have been stacking up in my living room for quite some time. My incentive is that it's easier to clean up all that stuff dry rather than in the event my windows get blown in and everything gets soaked. It's predicted that the storms will dissipate before reaching us, but I need to pretend that could be wrong, in order to keep cleaning, otherwise I'll stop.

Of course, if my windows do get blown in, then maybe insurance will pay for the new ones I'm having installed next month, haha! Silly me to have ordered new windows to be installed 2 months before hurricane season is over, but maybe that will work in my favor if the storm hits before my new ones arrive, hehe.

The ocean outside my window has been a bit extra tumultuous lately. The only damage I could see at my place is a blown over palm in a pot, but otherwise the weather has been pretty pleasant, not too hot, and a nice brisk breeze. Fun to watch the surfers riding the swirling waves.

My friends on the Big Island, 500 miles south of me, had some minor damage, lots of rain, 20 inches, flooding and road closures, brought by Tropical Storm Hone, (meaning honey) but they are safe and still enjoying life. Next up is Hurricane Gilma and then Hector.