Day 33

Day 33

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Yesterday (Tuesday) was an exciting day.  Not in a good way.  It started out OK  I slept well and woke early, and managed to get quite a few things done in the early morning.  There were a lot more things I would have liked to get done; but I guess I knew that with impending bad weather I probably wouldn’t get them all done.

I did get some random bits and pieces done, though not what was actually on my list.  I’ve learned this about myself: if I’m in the mood to do a job, one that needs to be done .. best to just go with it.  Otherwise .. like, if I try to push myself to do some other job first … I may end up not getting either one accomplished.

I got all my clothes from my travels washed; and in the process of putting them away, I went on and pulled out a few last winter things (sweaters).  So I tackled both closets to finish changing over seasonal clothes.  And, I moved a few small tables around to try to come up with what feels like a more pleasing arrangement.

I also made several phone calls.  One of them turned out to be a bust, but at least I tried.  And I have made arrangements for donations to be picked up next week.  That gives me a goal, a time frame, for going through anything else I think I need to get sorted.  Well, I think there will always be something else; but at least not as much!

I got all the laundry caught up, though the last load (towels) is still in the dryer.  I will (I hope) take care of that today.  And I got the den vacuumed.

That’s about as far as I got.  My SIL came over in the early afternoon.  She picked out some books she would like.  She also helped go through several of the small boxes of random odds and ends that I didn’t think should just be thorown away.  Most of it, in the end, really was trash; but a few things I saved. 

As we were sitting in the living room talking, suddenly her phone made a loud piercing noise.  She looked at it .. was a tornado warning.  So she immediately left (her dog was home alone and afraid of storms).  It was faintly thundery and just starting to rain at that point;  I hadn’t even turned on the TV yet. 

Minutes after she left, TGF showed up with  4 or 5 boys .. she was giving a friend’s kids a ride home.  But that person wasn’t home yet, and because of the threatening weather, the boys were afraid to be home alone.  We waited out a heavy storm .. dime sized hail coming down so thickly it looked like a snow storm (yes, even I could see it!).  When the tornado threat disapated, and the storm eased off, she took the extra boys home; but a new warning was issued in the time it took to do that, so she and her 2 came right back here.  We again waited out a severe storm. Again, once it moved on past us, she went on. 

It continued to be thundery well into the evening.  It rained off and on, very hard at times.  Around 7:00 the power went out.  (thankfully I had already eaten my microwave “dinner”!).  I sat in the fading evening light with 2 nervous kitties, and listened to a book.  The power came on after about an hour and a quarter .. and honestly, it’s extremely rare for power here to go off during a storm.

I have to admit, lonliness and sadness aside, I was glad I was not having to worry about DH (oxygen being off, as well as concern for moving to a “safe” place in the house if necessary) during that round of storms.  That was the worse in all the yeas I’ve lived here .. even worse than the tornado outbreak a few years back, when one went within 3 miles of here.  If the one cell had not disapated, we were directly in line with it’s projected path.

During the dark spell, my brother called to check on me (watching weather reports).  That was nice; I’m pretty sure everyone else was dealing with some degree of the same weather system.

I finished the book I was reading.  James Patterson always seems to be very current, but this one (Mistress) was eerie.  I had told DH several times over the last few months that I thought Russia was planning to regain all the old Soviet Union territory, and starting with the Ukraine.  So reading this book gave me chills to a point. 

When I finished the book, I called it a night.  I had a hard time getting to sleep .. it was still thundery, and very hot and muggy in the house.  But I slept well (except for some very odd and vivid dreams).

Today could well be a repeat performance of yesterday’s weather.  It’s now just after 8:00 and just started raining.  Thankfully it’s not thundery (yet).  I may or may not have TV or internet off and on (and how very frustrating that when I most need to know what’s going on, I lose TV reception!).  I know with it so dark and gloomy, as well as potentially serious, I won’t be able to get much done.  I keep the Kindle charged ..  so I don’t need power to read! J

I think I will hurry up and get a shower and some breakfast.  Just in case.