Good morning folks!
Well, the two days of birthday are over and thank you for all the good wishes! Lovely dinner last night with friends. All told I got three different gift certificates to gardening stores and nurseries....now WHY would that be? :laugh:
I don't mean to sound like what I'm probably going to sound like, but when the weather is so threatening, WHY are sports teams from colleges and high schools busing their kids around from state to state? What kind of insanity IS that? My daughter Julie's husband is on a parplegic basketball team and she went to a game of his that is three hours away from their college in Wisconsin. She ended up in a whiteout trying to drive home (her husband was on the team bus and she was with the girlfriend of another player -- a foreign student who barely spoke English but was good at panicking...), and became lost and scared. They had to spend a night in a motel and then get home the next day. I'm grateful they found a motel! She was still shaking the next day when she called to tell me what happened.
WHAT IS WRONG with keeping out of harm's way and keeping the people home when things get bad? It's horrid enough when a tornado hits a school, but why go out looking for trouble?
Rant over...
Looks like we're getting a break in the weather around here. We'll see some sun this weekend, at least off and on, and the temperatures will stay above freezing at nights at least until the middle of next week. That's a nice change.
And we stayed below our budget for last month...and that is GREAT!
MK, loved the dog story. We have a rescue mutt, Tia, who was found wandering starving on the streets. She is like my shadow. As one of our friends told me, "If she stayed any closer to you she'd be on the other side of you!" BUT she is easily frightened, and when Barry used a fly swatter for flies last autumn, she was terrified and hid under the desk shaking! When Sam was alive I remember that my brave old wolf dog would tremble at the sound of thunder. You know, I don't think it is the thunder itself so much as the fact that the electrical charges in the air during a thunder storm may be upsetting to the animals, and then the noise only makes it worse.
But getting up in the middle of the night to an upset? Yeah...
There was one night long ago when we heard our chickens raising a horrid ruckus in the middle of the night. I thought "oh no, a raccoon..." and took a flashlight and ran out.
Our rabbit, who lived in the same area, had cornered the chickens and was stamping his foot at them and they were hysterical.
What to do? We laugh. What else is there? As my husband has remarked a couple of times, laughing, "Who runs this house, anyway?" I don't know! Me? I'm the servant....
Have a peaceful day, y'all and God bless.
