EAST MEETS WEST

Wednesday, October 24, 2007





















Thanks to all of you for your calls and emails asking if we're OK. Fortunately, we're located in a little fire-free zone (our house is at about the 805 sign on the map). We're lucky to have bought a house where we did, because we looked at places in the areas that have been evacuated and threatened by the fire. There is a lot of ash and smoke in the air, which is worse today, and we're both finding ourselves wheezing a lot more. Curtis, the foreman of the construction company who did our renovation, just brought over an industrial air purifier with HEPA filter that they use when they are doing mold clean-up jobs to help clean the air inside our house. We needed this anyway, since we've been battling the dry wall dust.

Mishka and I are holed up in the house, cleaning up and painting and making cookies while Geoff is struggling to keep the clinic going with half of the staff missing due to evacuations. The scale of this disaster is truly staggering, but the emergency response efforts have been really great.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

stay safe and breathe as little of that air as you can - glad you have a filter! lots of love.

Silas Creek said...

Geoff and Isabel,
We are glad to hear you guys are safe and have been thinking about you. I apologize for not being in touch sooner. Will had trouble accessing it blah, blah, blah but now it works. We are happy to be back in Winston, but miss having you here. Sounds like San Diego is ummm exciting. Hudson is doing great all boy running everywhere. We had dinner with Dr. Dave and his family last week and we toasted you guys.
Miss you very much
Take care,
Please send your e-mail address to rlm7701@yahoo.com, so I have your e-mail.
Hugs to Mishka

Silas Creek said...

ps I am new at this its Rebecca

Isabel said...

I figured - you're the only one with a kid named Hudson! We're glad you're happy in W-S, and it warms our heart to hear that you had dinner with Dave and toasted us. We hope to see you around the holidays when we come visit! Hudson is so cute! What a big boy!