waiting for isabel

what a great day.  i thought it might be a washout, with rain showers predicted.  but we forged ahead with plans anyway.  we called our friend peg to see if she wanted to meet us for breakfast and a beach walk.  she did!  so we all ended up for brunch at the whitecaps cafe, for sticky buns and eggs and lots of rabid political discussion.  peg is feeling the way i feel most of the time, so i want to send her the rebecca solnits article.  she feels like we can't really do anything to change the status quo, but there i disagree.  i think we can.  i think organizations like moveon.com and truemajority.com and others are making a real difference.  anyway, we ate and talked and drank coffee and looked at the river.

then we all went to cape henlopen to the surfer beach and took a walk along the wonderful crashing waves.  the fog started to roll in, there were many shorebirds, scads of tiny clams kept washing in with every wave and burying themselves in the sand.  it was a totally peak experience kind of walk.  then G and i went grocery shopping, a hard job because we didn't want to fill the refrigerator and freezer with things that may spoil in a few days.  hurricane isabel is churning away out there in the atlantic, looking like she's heading straight for our section of the east coast.  i just have a feeling about this one, she's going to hit somewhere pretty close.  so we bought canned tuna, peanut butter, sardines, crackers, things we can eat without keeping them cold or cooking them.  it's pathetic how dependant we all are on the power grid.  that was certainly evident during the blackout.  i've got to get batteries tomorrow, get out the camping lantern and charge it up, start putting things from the yard into the garage.  even it it makes landfall a little south or north of us, we'll still have really big wind and rain.  maybe we'll even get out of a day or two of school......and why, as a grownup who teaches classes, does that still fill me with mischievous glee?  but it does.  we'll camp in an interior room, eat peanut butter sandwiches and listen to the wind howl.