The Thunder Rolls…

And the lightning strikes…(love Garth Brooks)

And where do the schnauzers go?

Up on the foot of Carol’s chair.

  Chloe is plastered against her leg.  If the storm gets real loud, like hail on the roof, she starts trembling like a leaf.  We found that if we cover her up with a blankie she settles down quicker.

SueSue, if it gets loud, gets down and looks at me and says “Are you going to go to bed now so I can cuddle? I’m too scared!” And you know what I do… take the computer to the bed and cuddle her.

Pretty soon Chloe gets down from Carol’s footrest and comes and jumps in the bed and I’m a schnauzer sandwich…

God, I love these pups.

It's A Beautiful Day...

In our neighborhood. Despite bad storms north and south of us, we made the night just fine. We had some small hail, just for a few minutes, and some pretty good rain. It's sunshiny and cool out this morning. I haven't ventured out yet because I'm pretty achy from the storm front, but I'll get to moving around because I have stuff to do. But I'm not doing anything willingly, just 'cause I have to... I'll be better tomorrow.

Thought I'd better post just in case you were wondering.

Helen,

(the old wreck)

Just In Case...

Most everyone that has stopped by my little blog know that we depend on satellites for our internet. After experiencing a number of problems last week end we found out that our satellite "gateway" is in Texas and there were problems receiving the signals because of the hurricane induced storms. Well, now we have another hurricane, Gustav, that is predicted to create havoc in the Gulf of Mexico in the next three or four days, so I may be able to post or not... depending on hurricanes, storms or whatever else that Wild Blue may think up to tell their customers when we can't get on line. Don't get me wrong... I'm so thankful that we are able to have high-speed internet at all and we, basically, have had very good luck with Wild Blue. It just seems odd to me that there is only one area that can receive and send out the satellite signals for our area. But then it has only been the last few years that I've been able to turn on the computer without having nervous heebeegeebies and I have no clue about how it gets to me and how I send it out. It just seems odd to me that there is only the one area that receives the signals. I mean if I can sit here and type it and hit a button and whatever I've written is out there, all over the air waves, then I ought to be able to get signals from north, south, east or west.

So if I'm not on here for a few days, look at the weather channel and check out what's happening in south Texas. If it's storming, I'll probably be 'stewing'.

Just letting y'all know in advance...

Country Life

Besides a number of other revelations about country living in bfe America, one of the biggest for me to get used to is satellite television and satellite internet. If there is even a sprinkle of rain the internet satellite is the first to go. It does, admittedly, take a bit more of a thunderstorm to take out our television satellite. This has made for more than one or two anxious times during an unusually high storm and tornado season. Living in what is affectionately called tornado alley and living in a double wide mobile home and no cellar, or "hidey hole" as they are called in these parts, if there is a hint of anything bad blowing up around us we start formulating a plan for where could we go in the house if we didn't have time to leave. Early on last week we had big storms barreling towards our area of the woods and the diddily-dang cable tv went out. We all put on our shoes, got flashlights, just in case, and greater minds than mine decided the safest place to get would be the pantry... That would be two larger ladies, a 6' 5" son, myself and 3 dogs in approximately 5 X 8 room with shelves. Now over the years I've had bouts with fighting claustrophobia, and my palms are starting to sweat about this time. I decided that I needed to be the lookout....You know the one that when the weatherman say tornado watch, I go out and watch for it. Fortunately the plan didn't have to be put into action, but I'm going to start investigating "safe rooms" that one could get in to with a motorized wheelchair. Just trying to take some prepatory action. Still haven't figured out how to download photos to the site, but I'm working on it.... Y'all have a good day ya hear!!

Reddirt woman gonna go out in the garden and get down and dirty doing some way past due weeding.