For anyone wondering how we made out with Hurricane Beryl, we were without power for 4 days. It went out on Monday morning about 3:40 AM and it didn’t come back until around 7 PM on Thursday. We initially went over to my in-laws house 7 minutes away because they had a generator that could power the AC, but then on Wednesday the generator failed – probably a problem with the regulator – and we had to go out to Winnie to get a hotel room for the night – a frankly crappy, tired-looking little hotel that was charging some pretty aggressively high prices for how poorly maintained that location was, but… rooms were in demand.

We came back Thursday night when we heard their house had power. I went over to our house to check on things and found that we’d gotten our power back not long before.

But we were some of the luckier ones. Most of our neighbors didn’t get power back until Sunday night.

We spend part of Saturday patching our fence and we spent a chunk of Sunday morning cutting up chunks of my in-law’s fence and hauling it to the curb for trash collection. They lost an entire side of their fence – I want to say it was probably about 50 feet of fencing.

She REALLY enjoyed getting to use that nail gun, BTW. She gets a kick out of power tools.

But we’ve mostly gotten the house cleaned back up and we’re settled in. We had several broken limbs on one of trees in the front yard. No damage to the house but I'm still working on the clean-up of the limbs. The poor tree has been savaged.

In the midst of all this, the first pack of 4 sets of those new 2024 Zimbabwe coins came in – I was getting emails about the tracking on Wednesday, and they were being delivered to our box by the postal carrier as we were pulling out to drive to Winnie, but we had our hands full with the kids and we just left, not particularly wanting to deal with it in the moment. So they sat in the mailbox until Friday.

I broke those out and put them in flips on Friday.

The second group of 4 sets arrived in the mail on Monday and those have also been opened and flipped.

I’ll need to start looking at these and some of the Colombian Turtle coins to start getting a submission together.

I’m not in a rush and I’m not overly concerned about getting these out and back before November. But I will try to make that process start soon… or sometime in the next month… maybe.

Last week sucked. I mean… really. It sucked.