Our darling little Skipper, our six year old Bichon Frise, just made me laugh!
We have what does look similar to half of a French glass door set for the exit out of our sunroom ( the other is in another location in the same room, but what can I tell you I preferred the wall space!), and he was sniffing in the bottom corner of the door for what reason I have no idea. But I thought that maybe he might have wanted to go out and so I opened the door to allow his exit and he jumped away and came over to this computer chair to take up his usual location lying behind me; its amazing, truly! You see, he has been doing this since he was a pup and at that time I weighed about a hundred pounds, he was just about two or three pounds, he had fit in Hubby’s hat, and since…well, let me put it to you this way I am nearly twice the woman I once was and he is about fifteen pounds and he still finds the room to lie in that restricted space! LOL
Today, I had some energy, which unfortunately did not last that long, but I did get outside under the lanai to help Hubby redo three planters that were out there and that were root bound.
They are the long window box type planters, in fact they used to be surrounding the octagon shaped lattice gazebo that Hubby had built prior to Hurricane Charley, but sadly Chuck blew it away!
Oddly enough the containers remained. And so they fit quite nicely on the shelf like ledge in our patio lanai area and had been there since.
Hubby rolled over the wheel barrow and the containers were all dumped, and the evidence of the root bounding up was extreme. Salvation of a few plants that seemed healthy was our objective and to shake the soil from them and break up the massive mess, which we did and amended it with potting soil and top soil as well as slow release fertilizer and mixed it all together in the wheel barrow. The best of the mothers- in –law tongue, wandering Jew plants and aloe were saved to transplant into the healthier environment. They were watered well and look great! The cost was zip, zero, zilch, nothing, since we had everything including the shards that were placed in the bottom of the long narrow planters for appropriate drainage.
We did have a heck of hefty nasty storm during last night and a bit of this morning too…Hubby slept through the whole thing while I was up and a nervous wreck around three in the morning. The nerves were due to the tornado watches that were coming over the airwaves. Plus I am not fond of thunder and lightening at all. Lightening is wild by itself but put it together with my concerns over having eye flashes and you got one confused worried woman with eye problems that she’s not sure are happening, got that? Well, today I can still see out of the eye that I really was getting those flashes in; did I mention that they actually started before the storm?
I’m no fool and the fact that I saw on the news that horror just a few days ago in Mississippi was all enough to keep me not in any sleeping mode!
Tornados are so ominous since you have little or no warning usually!
Here in Florida it is a rare home to have a basement unlike the mid-west or up north.
So escaping from one of those scary wind tunnels takes a bit of figuring out, look for a room without windows, or go under something strong with a mattress or some other such thing over you for protection, when outside they say to hide in a ditch, now where would one find a ditch when out and about? Do you understand why the fear of something like that is so deservingly frightening?
On that survival tale I will wish you all a good night and to all count those blessings and we will too!
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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