Life changing stuff

So much has happened since my last post, I don't even know where to start. Wyatt came home, he and I took a motorcycle trip to Colorado, now he's in Zambia. He'll be home for Christmas, 2007. Allison moved to the Washington, DC area to live with Ginger and start a new life. Amalia Knutsen, our foreign exchange student from Norway, is here and settled in. Ginger flew home and Kyla drove home for Labor Day weekend, so we could all be together one last time before Wyatt left. Allison rode the bus 30 hrs to get to the coast. So many things happening all at once, and work has been so busy, I feel like I'm caught in a vortex. But so far the changes have all been positive, so we work hard every day and hope for the best. I watched a Dateline special on Hurricane Katrina last night on tv, and it renewed my resolve to prepare my own emergency preparedness plan. Nothing elaborate, just food , water, first-aid, flashlights,ect. I don't think we'll ever have to worry about a hurricane here, but I remember 9/11. I sat in line with everybody else to fill my car with gas. Not to sound like a delusional paranoid (or maybe I am) but what if the terrorists decide to take out some key military installations next time? We sit in the middle of a triangle that has Ellsworth Air Force base, EROS Data Center and SAC hdqtrs. on the corners. (SAC=Strategic Air Command in Omaha) My house already has a built-in concrete bomb shelter built by the first owner, as the house was originally constructed at the height of the Cold War. Lets hope we never have to use any of it.