It never fails. No matter how much you plan, prepare, and labor you never get your shopping done. I have this list of things that I need to get and manage to get NONE of it. Yes, shopping for four hours and nothing. I did get some other items not on the list, but everywhere we went the stuff we were looking for were either out of stock or just not carried. Waiting in the eye doctor’s office for four hours did not help things. By the time we left the office everyone was already tired and wanted to go home. I guess next Saturday I will be going shopping by myself.
I need to add that this was the once a month, travel an hour to the bigger city, shopping trip – not the usual every week trip.
On our way we manage to get a glimpse of the rivers in the area… let’s just say that the crest now expected on Tuesday and another two to five feet higher that reported yesterday is going to force a lot of people to higher ground. In my twenty years of living in this area, I have never seen this much water in the rivers.
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A testament to the drainage at my house is that we have no standing water left in our yard this morning. The sky was clear all day and the wind dried off everything. However, because of the run off, the local rivers are cresting earlier than expected and they have revised the estimates of the flood stages. On top of that more rain is expected just when the rivers hit their peaks!
We drove over a bridge that is a must in our way to work and noticed that the river beneath that is usually 12 feet below the bridge on a good Spring rain is now running just under the bridge supports… that is about six feet below the top of the road! Since the river hasn’t hit its highest yet, I may not be able to get to work Monday.
I still count myself lucky that it would have to be a flood of over 50 feet to actually hit my house, but I feel for all those who are living closer to the river. Still the people who live below us are not in any real danger as the river would have to flood 30 feet or so past its highest recorded flood stage to reach them.
Good thing is that the aquifers located beneath us are starting to fill up again and will continue to do so as the water filters down so it looks like our drought is over for now.
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It has been raining for the last two days (or more) straight at times so hard that you can hear the rain hitting the pavement three stories up (in my office). And it does not look like it is going to end anytime soon. The forecast is for rain until morning so I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of water and mud tomorrow.
I feel for those who have already felt the pain of flood waters and I’m expecting that we will have some of the same sorrows locally when the runoff from the tributaries hit the local rain gorged rivers. Some of the bridges we have to cross everyday have already seen some water hitting there bottoms and we will not see the cresting of the flood stages until Sunday.
I count my lucky stars that I live on top of a hill and the closest river is in a deep ravine.
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Officially Spring has arrived and to herald its coming the weather was nice and warm this morning with a cool breeze all day so far. Now I’m getting ready for the usual freaking’ cold snap that happens around this time of the year. Watch it wait until like late April to make an appearance and ruin the whole Spring celebration I have planning. No, I am not having a birthday, just a Spring celebration… gifts are optional.
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Thank God, I made it home alive tonight. As you are probably not aware, there is a dense fog alert over most of my state this evening (and will be until last tomorrow morning). This fog bank settled in Sunday night and stayed around all day today. It was thick enough that the buildings across the lane from my building were invisible. It reminded me of a Scooby Doo episode that the fog was as thick as pea soup and Scooby used a knife to cut a piece out.
Top it all off, there were people driving WITH NO LIGHTS!
I was disappointed that there were no fog monsters in the mist.
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57°F. That is what the temperature was at 6a.m. this morning when I tied the dog out and the temperature had risen a couple of degrees. This is September in The South. We don’t get temps this low until well into late October and it is expected to be lower tonight. I guess I better get the fireplace cleaned up and ready (must remember to open the flue this time).
I know, you’re thinking… what a wus, we get that kind of low during the summer here in The North. I’m actually not complaining, just a little shocked. You see, I like cold weather… though we don’t get much here. Autumn and Winter are my favorite times of the year, especially Autumn with the cool mornings, breezy afternoons, early sunsets, and changing leaf colors.
Maybe we will get some snow this Winter. With my luck it will just ice over.
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Okay, technically Autumn doesn’t start until 6:23 PM EDT, but that is only four hours away so I’ll just go ahead and herald in the start of Autumn now.
I love this time of the year, leaves falling, grass no longer needs cutting as often, weather cools down, days get shorter. I like it when it is 7:00 PM and the sun is going down. Autumn also is the prelude to the holiday season. Columbus Day is coming (I wish we had that day off like the banks do), harvest festival is coming, Halloween is just around the corner, then Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Where has the year gone?
So happy Autumn everyone!
Feelin’ 
cool
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What is it with the cold weather lately? I live in the South… we don’t get cold winters except on the rare occasion that Hell freezes over.
22 degrees! Wind chill of 17 degrees!
And it is not February (our coldest month).
And my office is COLD! We don’t keep the heat on during the weekend to conserve energy (and money), but it just ain’t warming up. My tootsies are cold. My hands are cold. Even my uhm…. personals are cold.
And last night I was STUPID enough to run outside in my sleep clothes (I sleep in a t-shirt and shorts) to drip the outside faucets (keep the pipes from freezing) and it was COLD. Yes, I know you can just see me in shorts and a t-shirt running around the house yelling that it is cold (with no shoes on I might add). To make it worse, my son decided to play a trick on me at that time and locked all of the doors. Freezing to death and locked out of the house with little clothes on and no shoes. I stood under the CHA vent when I was let back inside trying to thaw my frozen bones.
And of course the cats had to go outside this morning. No, they didn’t stay out long, but the wind coming through the door as I let them out and in was COLD.
Did I mention it was cold?
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Yog confused.
Yog walk out of cave this morning, saw blue all over sky. Yog saw big yellow thing in sky that hurt Yog’s eye when he look at it.
Yog wonder where big grey cotton ball stuff in sky go. Yog concerned that no water falling from sky and interfering with Yog’s satellite reception. Big yellow thing in sky woke up Yog this morning because Yog forget to close blinds. No need close blinds when always dark.
Yog remembers in distant past that sky was blue and big yellow thing in sky, was time when Yog could wonder out of cave and mow grass that is now knee high to giraffe.
Yog really would like to got back to sleep. Or have sex with cavewoman Raquel Welch Yog saw on TV (cavewife would not approve). Or be able to eat gallon of chocolate ice cream without gaining weight.
Yog may go watch Raquel Welch and figure out why Raquel has cool dinosaurs and Yog only have boring old mammoths. Who Yog kidding, Yog just want to see Raquel.
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