I'm baa - aaack -- again.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 -
Sunday, July 19, 2015


Well, let's try this again.
I'm baaa-aack!

Let's hope the pute trouble, the thunderstorms and tornado watches and warnings, the electric going out - and staying out for hours - and all that kind of crap that has been happening to make me pull my hair out by the handfuls is over.  Let's all hope.  For my sanity.

Yes, we had rain, rain, and more good rain all this week.  I sincerely think that it has, in some capacity, rained every single day since the 4th of July.  Maybe only a small shower at night, but usually a thunderstorm and then some, and it just keeps on coming.  So much that the ark jokes have started...

The week passed with little happening, and on Saturday morning I did my final weigh-in for this go-round in my Biggest Loser contest.  Blah.  I really did go the wrong way!  I gained weight, and even though I lost inches on my arms and thighs, the inches I gained on my waist and hips more than balanced that out.  Phooey!!  No money in my pocket this time around.
I decided to do it one more time.  12 weeks from now will be October, so it will end before any of the holidays, and I CAN DO THIS!!  I have motivation now (ye gods, I can only do better, right?), and I most definitely want to be "better" than what I am now for, or at, the end of the year.
I have a goal.  I have motivation.  I have determination.  All those were missing before, so.....here goes.


Today, Sunday, was supposed to be a 'normal' Sunday.  Church and lunch, then home for 'normal' stuff.  Ron and I went to Georgetown to lunch, and as we got close, we came up to Road Closed signs.  Right on 125, the main artery between Georgetown and the world.  What??  It seems that all the rain (storms overnight - surprise) has caused the road -- the road -- to buckle and is unpassable.  Water going down the hill had even washed cars and firefighters down the hill...ai yi yi!...
We eventually got to Georgetown by going around the way Ron usually goes to work.  Back roads that way were also closed because of high water - and we could still see water standing there - and we could also see how high the water had gotten.
After we ate, we were on our way home, and I got a phone call.  Did we want some garden green beans?  Oh, yeah, we do!  So we went to our friends house to pick these up and ended up staying there for a while, talking and then played a game of dominoes.  We finally got home a little after 5:00!!
I checked my Facebook and found all kinds of information about 125 in Georgetown, and also about a family that got washed away in a flash flood outside of Ripley.  So sad.

Bert called and asked me to come over to pick up some green beans and tomatoes that she had for me and she didn't want them to get wet (they were sitting on her picnic table) and she didn't want to have to put them away and get them back out tomorrow (animals, you know).  So, around quarter til 8, I left to go get them.  I had to put gas in Ron's truck, so I had to go the long way - up through Bethel - and we got them loaded just as it started raining.  I took off, and then the radio played a weather alert.  A TORNADO WARNING!!!  Clermont County, starting with Amelia and coming down 125 toward Bethel, but also spreading out over toward Felicity.  Wonderful.  I did this before, you know, and this is not fun.  I drive as fast as I can and get home, get our shelter and shelter gear together, then went back outside and took pictures of those funky clouds.

It finally blew over, and all was good.  We did not lose power this time - yay! - and all our friends are accounted for, also.  All is good in our little world.

Maybe tomorrow will be back to "normal."  Define "normal."