Just wanted to update our friends and family who are out of state: we are all fine-thanks for your calls and concern! Jackson and I were outside during the earthquake. It was pretty crazy- our bird feeders and hanging plants were swaying heavily, not to mention the ground rolling beneath us after the shaking stopped. Jackson was crying and pretty shaken up. After it was over we prayed together -thanking Jesus for keeping us safe, and then went inside to check things out.
Each room had a number of things that had fallen on the floor- but not much that was really major. As we were checking out each room, I began to notice a strange smell that I couldn’t put my finger on at first. Then I started craving Bruschetta and when I came to the other side of the cabinets in the kitchen, I saw that a very large bottle of Raspberry Balsamic Vinegar, had shattered and splattered all over the entire kitchen. (Nothing serious, just a very large clean-up-job.)
Then, moving on to our “Green Room” we saw that a very large stained glass panel that had been propped up in the window had fallen and shattered on Jim’s desk. Looking more closely, we saw that it had fallen on to his laptop and completely trashed his laptop screen. Ironically, Jim’s parents had just given us the stained glass panel over the weekend. This past Saturday, as we propped it up in the window over Jim’s desk, Jim said “I sure hope we don’t have an earthquake soon…. this thing would crash right down.”
Most of all, we are thankful that we are all safe and that it was only a 5.8 (that I guess was recently downgraded to a 5.4 ?).
