6.5!!


So, it hit about 4:20ish and Madeline and I were sitting in the office at that time. Do you see all of those books??!! We jetted out of there and ran outside. I was not wearing any shoes and Mike was scrubbing the deck with bleach, it was soaked and cold out there but it was CRAZY! It was a pretty big earthquake and I haven't felt one like that in a long time...I wasn't too freaked out until Mike told me that "Who knows, San Francisco could be out in the ocean right now!" Madeline was not to keen on the whole 'shaking'. She just keeps saying that she doesn't want it to shake anymore.
Geez, we have been saying for a long time that we need to refinish those back doors and this picture makes me think that a million times more now. Shabby lil' shack!
We hung out outside for awhile and played in the cold but we knew there would be aftershocks (even though I didn't actually feel any) and would just much rather be outside if another big one rolled through.


Here is Madeline playing in the herb garden. She found the birdbath full of water and fallen leaves and had a lovely time splashing around in it and in the mud too. She didn't care that it was cold, she would rather be outside than in any day!
Luckily, I finished all my cake and appetizer job before the power went out. It was out for maybe 5 hours at the most. We ended up going down to the neighbor's house and having dinner with them too. No one was too freaked out but of course we can all sit around and laugh about it now. Amazingly enough, the radio stations were not reporting anything for the longest time! They just kept playing music. Annoying.
Anyways, all is good up on the hill, I don't think anything other than a little stack of books fell over. We are lucky I guess especially after seeing the mayhem in Old Town.
Let's hope it's awhile until our next one!