John Goes to the Hunt

October 15,2006

Forrest and Will were up early sipping coffee and talking. John joined in and finally Kathy got up. We talked a bit and soon John had to get ready to leave for a Hunt activity and Forrest headed for home. We relaxed around the house. Will put up some insulation around the back where John thought the cold air had come in freezing the water pipe that burst causing water damage to the house. Insurance had paid to have new rugs put in, redo the hardwood floor of the den and refinish the furniture from water damages. By then the Steelers were playing so we set up our chips and salsa and sodas and settled in for the game. The Steelers were in better form than the last games we had seen. Troy Paulamaulu made his tackles, Ben Rothernburg threw his passes and Heinze Ward caught his throws. The Steelers were up three touchdown and the other team was ready to get one when the channel we were watching, CBS, changed to a different game. Wow! What a thing to do. It was reminiscent of the Heidi game.

Carmine had left us a message that Hawaii had an earth quake; Justin was okay. Kathy immediately called Justin. He was out on his bike. The stores were lined up outside with people waiting to get in as they were only letting one or two in at a time because the electric was out. People were in the streets everywhere. Justin was going to pick up something to put on the grill for dinner. He said that the first shock at 6. something on the richter scale hit at about 7am. He shook in his bed and jumped up to stand in the doorway. Everyone was in the livingroom watching TV when the second shock at 5. something hit and the electric went out. Scary.