I knew we were going to get some heavy rain last night, but I had NO idea it was going to be as frightening as it turned out to be. The 2 1/2" of rain that we got in just a couple hours wouldn't have been all that bad -- I actually enjoy sleeping out there on the sleeping porch and listening to the heavy rain on the metal rooftop. But around 4 AM last night it suddenly seemed almost like gunfire in broad daylight!! There were so many lightening bolts and thunder! I looked over at the barn and everyone was inside their stalls and safe, so I just jumped up and ran inside. I turned on the TV so the dogs wouldn't throw a fit -- Boo, in particular, tends to howl when it storms, and went back to sleep! Inside with the TV on you really can't even hear the rain no matter how awful it is outside. Went back to sleep and didn't get to work until almost 9 this morning!
According to the radar, there was still more heavy rain out there at the house about 11 this morning but it hasn't been raining downtown so far. I'm told we can expect another "2 to 4 inches of rain" tomorrow, too. Yikes! Our pond was overflowing big time when I went out to feed this morning, and the corner store parking lot was completely under water AGAIN, so I'm sure they're going to have some serious flooding problems by tomorrow. Oh well. I won't have to drive anywhere over the weekend and by Monday the roads should be dry again - I hope.
Mark is only offshore a single week this time. Their crews are getting their schedules changed so it'll be his crew's turn to be home for the Thanksgiving/Christmas holidays this year. Then in 2014, when he would be offshore over the holidays again, he plans to retire just before those holidays! So he has apparently been away over Christmas for the very last time! Yeaaaa!
Anyway, as I said, he's working for just one week, then he'll be back home for one week, and then it'll be back to two and two again. So once he gets home next time for TWO weeks, Vickie and John will be coming down for a week-long visit - early in June sometime. I think they're planning to try and get that property they bought next door cleared while they're down here. Hope the weather is appropriate for that. And I hope they will have let the guy who cleared our place so well know that they would like it done then. If they wait until they get here to contact him, he probably won't be available. But hey -- I guess that's up to them. But I do wish they'd get those tall skinny trees near our fence down before hurricane season! Every time a couple of trees fall, it just makes the rest of them more accessible to wind damage.
Note that the trees over there behind these that went down last year are even larger! I am NOT looking forward to hurricane season without that land cleared!
But on the plus side, I will be happy to have them visiting anyway. It's so good to have "family." I still have Wendy (and Dave, sort of), and Dad's sister and her kids, but they're all up in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Mom and Dad are both gone now. And with all those relatives nowhere nearby I will be SO happy when Vickie and John and Bruce and Bonnie retire and move back here to Louisiana -- right next door!! Can't wait!
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