General Discussion & Chat: ♥Sweet Interruption♥ 27, 1 by fleursdefouquet

fleursdefouquet wrote:
Thank you, Lord, for flushing toilets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the tornados passed through on Saturday afternoon, Ike made his way through around 2 or 3am Sunday morning. We expected to lose power for a day or so but it turned out to be 4 days. Lots and lots of big trees down but thank goodness no damage to homes on our road. We stockpiled ice and water but it is a pain in the 'you know what' to not be able to flush toilets without filling up the water tank first. The weather has been beautiful so I've been outside trying to work. It's amazing what can get done when not sitting in front of a computer for hours at a time! lol! Also spent some time reading craft books while sitting at the dining room window watching hummingbirds and butterflies. It's not so bad when forced to slow down a little while.

No way to cover all subjects, but am sorry to hear about the loss of the baby chicks,
peacocks and turkeys. A friend with chickens has a Great Pyrenees (sp?) and says they are great dogs for guarding lifestock. Marion, glad you are feeling better. Love the festival theme - assuming it's a take off on the book 'The Secret Life of Bees'? Great book and the movie is coming out soon. Linda Kay, that's one mean looking surgery incision. Hope you are staying off of it. They had me on Vicadin after the surgery on my wrist/arm and I won't take it anymore. Had the worst withdrawals when the Rx ended. It was scary. Hope you don't experience anything like that.

Thanks for the dmail with my swap sistah info Jaye. I'll have to get some background info from you about her. Did you ask for a photo of my living room? (several times?) lol! Sorry, haven't been able to get on the computer since Saturday night. The only ones I could find are from Christmas - with my DBIL alseep in a chair. (he is not a permanent fixture) lol! Couldn't find a photo of the whole room so I'll show two photos. Our colors are very muted, 'old world' shades of brown, gold and sage green with accents of rust.