Friday, July 23, 2010

Tropical Storm Bonnie!

And so we just are completing our day of our first tropical storm to touch our coastline this early in July since 1985!
To be honest it fortunately did not have much bluster at all; it was mostly just a rain maker and timid and calm to be truthful no big winds here.
If this could only be the way the rest of our hurricane season could go I would be first inline for that rainy season!
But tameness is not what hurricanes are made of, and still this one as non-fierce at it appears it is heading now into the Gulf of Mexico up to around Louisiana and Alabama to create more rain and cause more delays on the oil leak clean up; they say for another twelve days!
Reports say we are not in the clear yet either for this little girl called, ‘Bonnie’ will still be causing thunder storms tonight and tomorrow.

Due to a nasty headache and stomachache and of course the rain this morning, and so I did not go into the pool.
Instead I finished one book and started another, two new authors to me and Hubby. You see, Hubby and I shared all four of the eight from the library and they were new ones which are due back on Wednesday. We both are finishing our last trade offs, which will complete the four early returns, and so I have a very good feeling that we will be done with time to spare!
The other four have an additional two weeks.
I do so love the library, but I don’t love how some of the books are destroyed by other borrowers. Some look like they were used for napkins or dare I say gauze; have you ever had that experience?
I used to belong to book clubs years ago and would buy first editions, but this is more cost effective, especially now and except for the condition aspects it is easier for both of us and we usually make it an outing for the day or least early afternoon.

Today we had a wee bit of an unusual experience … a dog of unknown origins, black brown with some tan, and one blue and one brown eye coveted our front doorstep for most of the afternoon! We didn’t mind since at first Hubby thought it was our next door neighbors who might not have been aware that it got out of his yard, and he was at work, since all it was doing was sleeping. Unfortunately, though it drove Skipper berserk with barking at it. And the different color eyes and the fact that it was a female made Hubby and I realize it was not our neighbor’s dog at all but one of unknown neighbors or perhaps just a dumped one?
With the economy on the nightly news more people are giving up their family pets due to not being able to afford them and at first that’s what I thought.
The Animal Control Department of our county said no since most dumped pets have their collars removed and hers was still on. And so we asked them to please come out to pick her up. I didn’t know if she had her shots since I didn’t see any tags and she was five times bigger than Skipper our Bichon so I didn’t know if she would be friendly or otherwise.
The officer that came was an old acquaintance of Hubby’s from his deputy days.
And just after he got the dog into the crate in the rear of his truck the dog’s family came and identified her (the dog) and took her home! So it was a happy ending!
Apparently they were looking for her all afternoon. Hubby kept yelling out the window for her to go home but I suppose with the rain she was way too comfortable there, under our overhang on our welcome mat.
You know if things were different and I was in better condition I would have asked, if she hadn’t found her people parents if she was adoptable.
Being down to only one pet after all these years is quiet but sometimes better since I can’t do what used to with three dogs, two cats and one old bird!
Not me, the bird, Charlie our cockatiel bird who lived to almost thirty-one, but you must remember I dedicated an entire night’s Blog to him back around the end of March!

Good night to all and too all count those blessings and we will too!

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