Mother nature provided us with a scary alarm clock yesterday morning. There’s nothing like waking up at 4:30 a.m. to feel your bed shaking and watching your room move back and forth. Matt and I both said “What is that?” Then we both decided it felt like an earthquake, but we don’t have those out here… so what could it be? My first thought was tornado, but it wasn’t windy, so that wasn’t it… Matt was thinking a big explosion or maybe a train crash since we have tracks not too far away, but I kept thinking that we would have heard a big bang if that was the case. It is amazing how much can go through your head in the short amount of time you are going through the experience. After it was over, I turned on the weather emergency radio and they didn’t say a thing about it. Finally the 5:00 a.m. news came on, they confirmed it was an earthquake, (even the news reporter was shaken up – he kept saying I’m pretty freaked out right now. LOL) and we were able to go back to sleep. I just wanted to make sure it was indeed an earthquake and not just our house shaking or something else more localized. It turns out it was a 5.2 magnitude quake about 2 1/2 – 3 hours south of us. So…. I guess we do get earthquakes out here! They claim we will only see a quake this size once every 10-15 years. Good news, because I can’t say I necessarily want to experience that again anytime soon. The kids slept through it all and we told them all about it in the morning.

We’re having a lazy day today. After waking up early yestrday morning and then having a packed day all day yesterday, it is nice to just hang-out and relax. We’ve been having weatherin the mid 70’s but today it is down to the upper 50’s again. Matt is out pressure washing his BBQ, getting it ready for the season. It needs a bit of repair work (a couple parts) and then hopefully will be good as new.

We went to the nursery the other night to pick out some plants for our garden. That was a fun trip, but wow, that bill added up quick! I was planning on getting 10 raspberry plants, but when I discovered they were $17.99 each I settled for 3. I know they will spread like crazy eventually (my last years plants are working on that) so I guess I’ll just have to have patience for a couple more years and then we’ll have raspberries in abundance. Matt also decided he wants to try blueberries, so we grabbed a couple of those bushes too. Then Matt got 8 more pepper plants (just what he needs! LOL) and we got a couple different kinds of lettuce and some strawberries. My strawberries didn’t do very well last year, so I’m changing from 2 beds to 1 and hopefully this year we’ll see a bit more of crop. I haven’t quite figured them out yet.. they don’t perform well until the 2nd year and then you are supposed to replace them every 3-4 years with new plants… seems like a lot of work! We’ll see how it goes this year.

Well I’m off to cook some dinner – something with hamburger haven’t totally decided yet. Either taco casserole or stroganoff or tator tot casserole or…

Take care!
C-