Saturday, March 3, 2012

The wind has been blowing on and off...

And we have been told that all the horrors of the last few days to our north will not be coming here, no tornadoes here as they were in our tornado alley, heartland of America.
Horribly the death toll rises daily from the ones that did hit those regions and now at this writing was over thirty and presumed to be rising with so much rubble…
The weather had its time spent in our panhandle today with a tornado there and in South Georgia too; so the news/weather reports stated this morning.
Two people that I care about live in the areas that were hard hit, northern Kentucky southern Ohio and also in the Nashville area as well. I had tried calling my cousin in the first locale, and my friend in the other but neither could be reached…worrisome, oh very, very worrisome.
Next step tomorrow would be to try to contact the Red Cross, but at this point I would just be interfering in what they are trying to accomplish and so I will wait to hear from my cousin and friend or even my friend’s brother, who I emailed. You know having cells or unlisted numbers are great except when something like this comes up making it difficult to get in touch.

Today, Hubby and I did go out to finally get a new house phone; ours was probably older than twenty years old and the battery had been replaced a while back and was expensive just for that, so we opted to get one of those new fangled jobbies at Best Buy. We got lucky the model we liked was on sale for $39.99 plus tax, with two handsets, caller I.D., answering machine, intercom and speaker which will enable Hubby to be able to go outside and not worry and if I need him I will be able to get him in as fast as he can arrive and it is a Panasonic to boot, but usually priced at over sixty bucks!
We also went crazy on our journey with our first stop going to Bed, Bath and beyond to buy my wish list, wild crazy idea of an oil mister that is used instead of buying those bottle sprays, and the one we used to use rhymes with cam… Any-who, with this one you can put your own olive oil in without who knows what in it, the pure stuff, and even switch it out to install any vinegars or lemon juice what-have-you and use less! The Misto in a stainless steal pump can and was just $9.99, but refillable with your own stuff and with their coupon of 20% off, only $7.99 plus tax, but of course, what a deal? If it works out and we find that we like it; maybe next time we will get a spare, hmm?
We wound ourselves through the parking lot there and found our eating hole to be this time TGIF, and we had a large lunch reasonably priced and a lighter dinner, the way us older folks are supposed to do it, I think?
And from there we checked out the Beach Complex but although it was busy with people swimming in the pool and sunning on the beach and utilizing the tennis, volley ball, basketball courts and the bocce field, nothing for me was there to see.
They used to have a farmer’s market and antiques displayed indoors in the building there, many vendors some new and some with not so new merchandise but interesting and out in the parking lot on occasion too.
I suppose there is a schedule for that somewhere and I will have to do more research on that…Anyway, it was on our way home and that was our last stop!
Lunacy erupted soon after our arrival, it was a sunny warm beautiful day, yet above our home it was thundering or at least it sounded that way!
But alas, no it wasn’t that at all, what it was was our solar panels. Our neighbor across the canal even called to tell us, he didn't realize the racket that we were hearing inside the house. They had been installed back in 2005 with the pool at that time and they had been showing their wear for the last few years with leaks that Hubby repaired and all was good for a while and today they had their last hoorah!
The wind as I stated earlier was blowing and those were what they were blowing and Hubby in all his difficult ability due to a compromised back injury rose to the occasion and realized that they were goners and needed to be removed and so he did…and cut them up for the garbage pick up this coming Wednesday to be easier to remove.
I can’t go into a hot pool anyway and so maybe, who knows if I might be able to go into it now?
We will see…
Tomorrow the storm could be nasty anyway and now we have one less thing to be concerned with blowing away!
See, we can find the silver lining in anything if we look hard enough!

Moving on... a bit...
Rush Limbaugh apologized to the young woman he berated the other day, making himself feel better, I am sure. But he lied saying that it was not meant to be a personal attack? He used her name in his venomous statements, and if that’s not personal I’m a conservative right winger, ha!

Ah realization too late, but I would also be a liar if I did not also in my recent past not admit that I too have been guilty of saying things without thinking it through all the way, hmm? He too must have a broken filter; there you go that explains it!
Brings to mind some biblical concepts of the one about those who haven't sinned being able to throw the first stone or some such thing, hmm?

And so, that is where I will leave it, he does not deserve my venue to be discussed… Allow me then to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you too kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages with all you know that need them and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, ya hear?

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