Just In Case

 The last couple of days I have been Roy's eyes and ears for news and updates. We got a weather radio with all types of gadgets ordered for him in case of any future weather developments. Around 3:00 am he got power along with internet and water. So, he paid bills online before taking a shower. I love him! 

What a hassle with my Instagram account being hacked and then the ensuing email that contained a threat of blackmail for very specious reasons. I reported it and filed a IC3 claim with the FBI. Then I took to my blog and Facebook letting anyone and everyone know that the Instagram message is not from me. Also the message of sending to my contacts and also via social media me being disgusting in front of my webcam. The only times I have used this webcam is for Bible study with Community Bible Study and with Houston's First Baptist. 

Last night we got a lot of rain and even some thunder but our temps are above freezing but it looks as if they will plunge tonight thus setting up icy conditions tomorrow. I was able to run errands yesterday and so I am ready to be here just in case. Since Covid, I'm usually always here, just in case. Just saw there might be a rock/mudslide on Monticello. I did some other preparations last night just in case after reading about generators that stopped working. Both in Katy and here we had house generators installed and the one in Katy paid for itself during this week long cold and miserable weather. Well, it has been paid for for quite sometime but you know what I mean. Someone kind of made a snide remark to us once about the generator. When budgeting for them, we traded vacation trips for electricity. In the big picture we may have not gone far in travels but we are happy for the decisions we made. I went to bed early last night thinking I might be up a lot during the night with impending ice and such. I was up a lot but not due to a storm but Buddy. At least she was able to settle quickly once returning to bed. 

Tuesday evening on PBS I watched part of the first part of the program on black church. I felt like I learned so much, heard things I had never heard before. But, maybe that isn't unusual cause I'm white. I am reading books on racism and this truthfully is the first thing I have watched because as I have written about before, my attention span for watching programs or documentaries, no matter the subject, is just not there. I ask the Lord each day to show any hurtful or wrongs. As the Church of the Redeemer song says, "I want to walk as a child of the light. I want to be like Jesus."

I defrosted a container of taco soup yesterday and it hit the spot both in warmth and in comfort food. Then after that delicious lunch, it was time to cut up strawberries. Strawberries from Florida is the beginning of the most wonderful time of the year. That means it won't be long and NC and SC strawberry season will be in full swing, which is usually the herald of produce stand season. Since December, we are slowly working our way through what we froze and man, those peaches taste so good, like a summer afternoon, when you bite into them. 

The strange and odd emails continued yesterday. I received one from a bank that Roy uses and then from LifeLock. Neither one of them sounded legit. I did not use the links but logged into accounts in a different manner. The affirming message that would be on the website was not there claimed in the emails and both of these phishing emails had very similar language. Then last night I got another email from a computer service that wasn't real.  A friend told me a relative of hers is getting almost the same kind of stuff and a hacking into the Instagram and trying to exact info from scam emails. It makes my head and heart spin, emotionally exhausting especially since I try so hard to protect my heart from overreaching stress. So all passwords have been changed, everything updated and doing everything to keep safe, just in case.

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Yesterday afternoon around here became the perfect storm. I won't go into a lot of details but several unrelated happenings, happened and since I am the daughter of one of the best conspiracy theorists that could ever put together unrelated happenings to make them a happening, I was at it. Yet, I was fighting the compulsion to do so. Roy talked me down so to speak. 

Got a few more of those phishing emails from companies we use or have used. It is a bit emotionally draining to be on point all the time. 

We are rejoicing this morning that Roy has power, internet, water and phone. They are still under a boil water directive but that is a small price to pay. The casita bedroom did fine and maybe the heater company will be out to fix the damper that goes into that room today. Temps are to be above freezing. 

Around here we are rejoicing that the temps held one degree above freezing thus saving us from an ice storm. The rain was plenteous and heavy. With the exception of the mornings today and yesterday holding some black ice situations and with the sun shinning through, roads are probably passable now but being cautious, I will give it a couple more hours if I decide to head out. It is almost the high for the day this morning, so in a bit I will refill the birdfeeders. I was just on hawk duty and got the kitties back into the garage. Just hanging out on the trash can...without a clue to the danger overhead.