Here is another. The trees were torn up and thrown yards away. On our trek to the car, we saw holes with no trees and trees wiht no holes. Debris was everywhere. Only one person was killed and he was under a pavillion during the setting up of an open-air expo.
Wow, that's crazy! Me and my grandparents went to see the Tabernacle when I was 10, I wish I remembered it but I don't. We left central California and drove on I80 to Reno, then Idaho to see my uncle, Yellowstone, Colorado, Wyoming, Salt Lake, and it seems I'm missing something but can't remember what. The only thing I remember from that trip is the campground in Wyoming, there was an Indian tribe way out in the distance and we could hear them, it was the spookiest thing I had ever heard.
LOL It can be scary if you don't know what they're doing. We have a Powwow down the street from us every year. Well, WE don't but the local tribes do. ☺ Pretty strange to hear all those drums and singing coming out of the dark.
That's the way it was, drums and singing in the sunset. Scared the pee outta me as a child.
I think I'm going to go make some Egg Flower Soup. I'm cold.
That's cool! I had that for supper just now. ☺
LOL Yum! Was yours good? I just use the power in the packages. I don't remember what brand.
We went to a Chinese restaurant. It WAS yummy. LOL I had lasagna from Sbarro's tonight. Yuck! Nasty stuff. I left most of it on the plate.
Well, I'm off work for 2 days. Except I have to go in for a short time tomorrow because we had a guy stay in the bathroom after closing. I had to go back with the PD and get the guy out. He CLAIMS he was locked in. Whatever.
Oh my, people do some weird things. Yay on 2 days off! Do you have plans? I think Dave's going to have to work all weekend so I don't know what I'm going to do. There is an RU I want to go to but it's on Friday and I don't have any time to take off at work, so I won't be going to that. My new Coreopsis are already starting to go to seed and Gustav knocked them over, so they are laying on my Petunia's, so I'm going to pull the seeds off instead of cutting the whole stem off, then pull them out. Dave wants to build a deck extending part of the front porch out to where the flower bed starts to decline on the hill. Probably extend it out to where the steps start.
Yeah, some people's kids, huh? You don't mind giving up the space?
Hi Ladies!
Oh I am so jealous you have days off!! LOL, wish i had some left too.
Of i might just have the rest of my life after Oct. 1, lolol.
Gosh Celia, thats weirrd. How did you find out he was still in there??
Well anyway, woohoo enjoy the days! Will you be working in the gardens or just a bit of everything.
Was glad to see you enjoyed movie night.
Terry! Been thinking about you hard. I hope your alright. sending prayers and HUGS too.
Oh Crissy, Are you ok from Gustuv?? Geesh must have been scarey. My coreposis is still growing. You know i never take them out. When they are seed I yank and toss the seed right back in the garden!
Judy, the guy set off the motion sensors. We're getting ready to set up another movie night.
Yow!!
What are we watching??? LOL.
Not sure yet. Maybe Hot Fuzz. It's the same people who made the Shaun of the Dead movie. Another comedy. Maybe something else.
I don't mind giving up the space at all. That way the table with the umbrella can sit out with the umbrella open. It would make the porch a lot bigger. Then I can have my little flowers in front of the deck and make it all cute. I'll look for some pictures tonight of the table w/ umbrella and chairs in that little space.
Yes, show us what it looks like. Love to see. Are your sunflowers past the flower stage and gone to seed?
Oh that will be cute! yep share your pretty porch sitting.
The sunflowers were going to seed then Gustav showed up, soaked them to the core, then blew them over. That's the 4th time they've been blown over so I put them in the back forest. Maybe they'll come up next year and be protected by the trees.
I wanted to take a before picture last night but Dave's having problems at work and this morning I just went off on him. I don't know how he should handle it.
There are these guys who lie on their time card by putting they've worked 8 hrs and have left at 6 hrs, which they should be fired for, and they pass all of their work onto Dave, and he's getting quite angry about it. This morning he comes in all mad about the swing shift guy. He got to work last night at 9:30 and the swing shift guy was already gone. About 10 minutes pass and a guy from a different department shows up and says, "Where are my parts? Kasey told me I was going to have them by 9:30." Dave got furious because Kasey dropped the ball, as usual, and now Dave has to do his work for him. Dave's boss already put the 2nd graveyard guy on a slightly earlier shift, getting off work at 3:30am. The other guy doesn't want to work until 3:30am, so he leaves at 1:30am, without getting it approved, and since he's a hard worker Dave doesn't want to say anything to get him in trouble. I asked Dave this morning if he told his boss that Kasey had left that whole thing for him to do, Dave's answer was, "No, that's unacceptable. You can't complain about that. I asked him what Kasey's hours are." He's asked what the guys hours are at least once a week. I tried to explain that it doesn't matter what his hours are, if he's not doing his job, he's not doing his job and someone needs to be notified. Dave said again that he can't tell his boss because that's unacceptable, and it would put the spotlight on the other "graveyard" guy. So when his boss came in this morning and asks Dave how his night went, Dave cops this huge attitude, rolled his eyes at his boss, and yelled at him about something that had nothing to do with Kasey not doing his job. Dave got mad at me, climbed into bed, and turned his back. I have been dealing with this ever since I got back from vacation, and if there's anything I want to talk about the volume goes up on the tv, if we're not talking about his work then he's not talking at all. I've told Dave to get another job then, he says he doesn't have enough energy to look in the paper and go to interviews during the day. If he loses this job, not the first job due to his attitude, so help him.
To all my dear sweet understanding friends---
Phyllis passed away late last night, sometime after 11pm. I do not know the time, I did not look to the clock. I was there with her, by her side. Stacy, her beloved husband, is beside her now.
Please do not worry about me. I am fine, only sad. I did what she asked me do and I find comfort in that also. Her heart is my heart, my heart is her heart. One day, I will see her again.
Terry♥♥♥
(sniff) We love you, Terry. Take care and we'll talk soon. I'm crying for you.
For you and Phyllis, the best of friends.
I forgot to say, Crissy, I feel for you, too. I'm out of suggestions for people. I like giving advice but it nevers turns out how I see it in my head! LOL
Terry,
I am so very sorry to hear of your Best Friend Phylis's passing.
...Very glad though that you were with her.
Hugs and prayers continue.
Talk to you soon.
Terry I have tears in my eyes as I type this I am sorry for the loss of Phyllis but I am so happy she is in a better place. Prayers and hugs coming you way from this lurker.
Phyllis had so many vicarious friends. I'm going to thank you for Terry. She is very much loved here.
Terry, I'm sending you my love too, I am so sorry for your loss. She's no longer suffering and in a better place, with Stacy right beside her.
Thank you everyone for your kind words.
In the last few days, I hear Phyllis telling me how you can't choose your relatives, but you can choose your friends. It was an honor and a privilege to be her friend and to call her my friend. I can also hear her say that it isn't blood that makes a family. You think you understand it, but when it comes to all this? Now I fully understand what she meant. My husband, our daughter and myself, were so much more than friends. Krista was her granddaughter, John was her son, I was her daughter. She was both John and my, mom and grandma all wrapped into one. She thought I could do anything and I could not, so it breaks my heart. I tried, I tried so very hard, and I know that she would be proud. And I am proud. I can look into the mirror, past the pain, and see a woman who did her very best. I sleep well at night. With the knowledge I did everything humanly possible to honor her wishes. Not my own wishes, her wishes.
As the days have progressed and I learn more and more, it's apparent that even in death, they refuse to honor her wishes. They all have selective hearing and did not hear their mother nor did they hear me. The biggest case in point...I have the dress she wanted to be buried in. Washed and ready to go. 4 of the 6 knew I had the dress. They never asked for the dress and they took something else to the funeral home, now saying "it's just a dress". If it truly is "just a dress" then why not dress her in the dress SHE wanted? You have no idea how badly I want to wear that dress, to the visitation and to the funeral. I am loony. It is way too large for me and would fall off☺ Fold it up? Lay it in the casket with her? Or just keep the dress, as my own visual? Something of hers that's tangible, to hold onto and to squeeze tightly. I miss her so very much.
The day before she passed, she said she wanted to go to home, with me. I knew when she said it, she didn't mean home as in my house, she meant home, to God's Kingdom. She also said, a little later on that day, sip. I stood up and asked her if she wanted water or some of my Pepsi. "No", she replied, "I had a sip of Heaven". I then asked if that was the beautiful place she was always seeing and she nodded her head yes. She went away someplace for a few hours. I thought she was leaving me, so I climbed in bed with her. And it was then that she awakened and looked to me. I told her that I had said I was getting into bed with her!! And she smiled. Around 12:30am that night/morning before, I couldn't stay any longer, so I prayed and I begged Jesus to take her home. And I kissed her forehead, her cheeks. Big loud smacking noises like I always did. She looked to me once more, eyes glazed over, and she gave me half dozen kisses. She was holding on the next morning, waiting for me, but never to be conscious again. I know she knew I was there. I wanted to climb into bed with her again, but I was afraid she wouldn't go. She needed to go, God was waiting. She wanted me there though and refused to go without me there. So I stayed and I sat and I prayed.
Remembering all the years, brings nothing but a smile to my face and laughter to my heart. I just miss her so much that in between the smiles and laughter, I cry. And then I get selfish. Yes, she's in a better place. I have no doubt Stac was there to welcome her home, with his smile and the twinkle in his eyes that I knew so well. I want her though. I want her back.
The visitation is Sun. afternoon, 2-5pm and the funeral is Mon. at 11am. It's not fitting in to everyone's schedule, but that is when it is nonetheless. I feel the need to line them all up against a wall and smack them. And I know that Phyllis wouldn't mind and I know Stacy wouldn't mind. I won't though☺
Please pray as I do, for my continued strength and the guidance I need.
Thank you again for reading and I hope, understanding. And no, this isn't snippets from the diary of a mad woman!!☺☺☺ It's just me, Terry. Wearing my heart on my sleeve, as I do so very well☺
Terry, there are no more words. You've said them all. She loved you, you loved her.
So true, Terry you should be a poet, what you have said is so moving.
Crissy, that's me..a poet and I didn't even know it☺ My brother is the legend in his own mind☺☺
I am heart broke, that's for sure. I'm sorry I haven't asked how anyone else is. How rude. How are you all?? Rain for anyone else? Nasty hurricane coming. I do wish the Weather Channel would at least do our forecast.
It doesn't exactly help a girl a lot in reality, but it does help a girl feel a whole lot better----and that is to go shopping!! I bought myself a pair of THE sassiest, "I've got attitude", red stiletto shoes yesterday. And an outfit to match. The young sales guy, was so cute. And he loved the shoes and said I definitely could pull them off, that not everyone could☺ I didn't stand there and tell him the whole story, but enough words to understand why I needed some sassy shoes. They weren't even on the floor, these red shoes, they were hiding in the back, waiting for me. I had on a pair of black stilettos, and he found these red shoes. I needed red, I wanted red. I can also pop 'em off and poke anyone I wish with those heels☺ I'm thinking the eye, what d'ya think? Of course I'm not serious..lol..I can dream though ey? ROFL Oh gosh, of course John and Krista got new outfits also. Poor John, wants nothing more than to wear jeans, t-shirt and tenny shoes☺ Instead we bought him a stuffy new suit. He's supposed to be a pallbearer, but you know how things have been going with those "children".
John just checked the rain guage. We've had 4.5" of rain since yesterday. Wow. And it still pours outside.
We're going to get the worse side of Ike this evening through the night. It's in the southernmost part of the state right now and central AR is expected to get up to 5" of rain, 40mph winds w/ gusts up to 60mph, and isolated tornadoes. We're still soaked from Gustav so I'm nervous about my 20 to 30 trees that could fall on the house. We have to go to HD and order a bunch of stuff and pick up a couple of ceiling fans, I guess some good ones went on sale yesterday Woo Hoo! And Chinese Buffet for lunch!
I'll yak at ya'll later!
Terry, you have to take a picture of ya'll dressed up and send it. Would love to see your shopping spree! I'm proud of you for not letting those "children" (I don't know why I'm using quotes, that's exactly what they are) get you down, I probably would've borrowed someones mallet and dirty socks by now.
Luv Ya!
Christine
This message was edited Sep 13, 2008 6:38 PM
YIKES!!!
We had a tornado go directly over my house at 3:45! They showed it coming North East right at us, and after it was all over and it hit just, I mean just, north of me. They gave us 15 minutes to get in an interior room, storm shelter, basement, whatever, I didn't take 1 minute, I grabbed my cat, my book, and more batteries and went down into the shelter I am still hoping I wasted money buying. I got a big one so my next door neighbors can join me/us in there. The men didn't use it, they stood on my back porch and watched it go over. They said the wind was about 40mph for about 3 minutes then it died, of course we could hear the wind and rain inside the shelter. There are reports of downed trees over State Hwy 70 just blocks away, so I'm assuming that was the tornado going over us. The storm was moving at 50mph.
We're up past 6.5" of rain so far!! Where all this is coming from, I have no idea. The Weather Channel seems to be talking mostly about TX. I did hear on the radio that we're supposed to get rain from Ike also. This week-end was our Homestead Festival. All the planning and what not that went into that, for nothing I guess. Everything was rained out. The ground is saturated. No place for it to go. The services at the grave site should prove to be interesting on Mon.! Me in my stilettos no less..lol. I put "children" in quotes, since I am being sarcastic when I say it. They act like little kids, so they're treated as such. I'll warn you all in advance if I post a picture of myself---no make-up. I'll cry it all off, so there's no point. Nothing worse than coon eyes☺
Crissy, we never even hit the basement when a tornado is coming. You're lucky you get a 15 minute notice. It always seems when one is on the way? We know when "they" know. I remember once, one was about to hit here and the Weather Channel was even saying our towns name, when the power went out. You'd think we'd hit the basement, but oh no, we were outside, watching☺ I'm glad you're all safe though. Tornadoes aren't fun to go thru. Can't imagine living near where a hurricane comes. I wonder is that tornado happened to go thru Bull Shoals? Up north of you, in Marion County. Not far from Mt. Home. We lost a boat 10 yrs (?) ago when one went thru. Catapulted it over a bunch of other boats on the other side of the dock and it ended upside down in the lake. I say we, because even though my parents bought it, they call it my boat..lol. The ski boat is my sisters boat. Too funny.
I'm off to bed. I might be on tomorrow. I'm not sure, I'll play it all by ear. Everyone stay warm or cool, whatever the case might be in your area, and please stay safe!
Everyone is safe? Don't want to lose anyone. Crissy, you did good hiding in there. You never know how bad those things can be. I would have been right there with you!
Wow! Terry! That is too funny! LOL
Morning girls!
I received an e-mail from pepper last night (or is it that I read it last night?☺). She hasn't had a computer in 3 weeks and hopes to get one soon.
10am and we've already gotten another inch of rain since last night. And it continues to rain. Because of my mood, I'm calling them "my tears from Heaven". I know I'm weird!! I don't know why my brain works the way it does, I only know it always has.
Celia, you should of seen "my" poor boat. Poor baby. I loved that boat and she was my favorite color too. Navy blue. "My" newest new boat? Man I hate that thing. It doesn't have a deck. Now where am I supposed to lay without my deck on the front? My mom says inside the boat. I say I don't want to lay inside the boat. I want the deck. C'mon! 30 yrs. of every boat having a deck and NOW they want me to change?? Hmph. A man did buy "my" ruined boat back then, and he fixed it. He had the stall beside mine and he tortured me with his boat, my boat. I kept begging him for my boat back. I was trading him, even up, clean exchange. But noooo, he wouldn't do it. I would get a---what do they call that? A boat or a car that's been totaled, but you fix it anyway? And he'd get a clean title for himself. jeez☺ When I got "my" latest new boat? My sister got "her" new boat too. Mine's green. The color of her houses foundation. And "her" boat is navy blue. The color inside and outside of my house! I know, you all are saying they get boats for nothing and they're complaining? YES!! We both have check book covers that say "Rich ____ and Proud of It!" ROFL
I need to laugh girls. Please help me to laugh and to keep me laughing as I struggle thru today and tomorrow and the next. I wish with all my heart you were all here, beside me, holding my hand♥♥♥
I wish I was there with you Terry.
When I was in high school the librarian was this very tall, probably 6ft without heels on, very thin, who wore these huge glasses and what looked like 6" stilettos. No one knew her name so everyone called her Stilts. Every time I hear or see, in this case, the word stilettos I think of her. Don't ask.
I think all of you who sit outside waiting for the tornado to hit are nuts! LOL!
I thought ours was pretty neat until I started getting hit with things in my eyes! LOL I can't stand anything in them. I have to be strapped down to have eyedrops put in. Seriously.
Terry, this will make you laugh...I was walking through our store today and was watching a little girl, maybe 4 yrs. old walking with mom. The girl was NOT watching in front of her, she was looking at ALL THE STUFF!!! So...mom says "Hurry, Bethy. We gotta go." Bethy turns her head and BAM! right into the table in front of her. Bonked the top of her head good. I went over to see if she was okay and she looks at mom and says..."Who moved that table when I was looking over there?" I thought I was going to choke, I was laughing so hard! ROTFLOL Mom was, too!
Keep your hearts on your sleeves, keep your heads in the clouds, never stop smelling the flowers, sing like a bird in the trees and NEVER grow up!
You all are here with me. Maybe not physically, but in spirit. Remember Charlie's Angels? We're them. All of us. I saw you all in my minds eye yesterday, walking with me, holding my hand. Yesterday was only hard in the sense that I can't believe them. I'm afraid they all boggle my mind. Fake tears, fake people who didn't come when she was alive, all of it. People asking me questions, that if they knew their mom, their sister, their friend, their grandma, they would all know the answers to. I don't like visitations/funerals anymore than the next guy. But it isn't about me, it's about Phyllis. It isn't about them, it's about Phyllis. It's being there, remembering Phyllis and all that she meant to us. I'm a little Catholic girl, who has lost something so very dear to me. And if that Pastor asks me one more time if I believe in Jesus Christ, I'm going to scream. And if I hear one more time, how no one "has a neighbor that would do that for me", I'm going to scream. I keep hearing Phyl in my head, "it takes more to being a family than blood" and "we can't choose our relatives, but we can choose our friends". I talked to her many times yesterday, and I swear, I heard her talking to me. I won't apologize for holding my head up high with my shoulders back. I did everything humanly possible for Phyl and I'm proud of me, because I know she's proud of me. You should have heard them all yesterday. All the would of could of should of's. I have none. All the regrets they have. I have none. I have nothing to apologize for, so they will not and they have not heard me say that I am sorry. I don't need or want their apologies. There were no unspoken words between Phyllis and me. There never was. Phyllis and I spoke of our love for each other, how we'd never be far apart. She knew that I would miss her something terrible, but that it was alright to go. God was waiting, Stacy was waiting. She spoke to me about her sip of Heaven, and for that, I will always be grateful. I know that she doesn't want me to be sad. I also know that she knows me☺
I have songs in my head, 'These Boots Are Made For Walking'. And Olivia Newton-John, 'Let's Get Physical'. Of course I change the wording to fit☺
Crissy, I'm not tall and I'm sure not very thin! Having kids and life in general had a hand in that!!
Celia, things fly into your eyes when riding the boat? Hmmm....things are always and forever flying into my eyes. I hate things in my eyes. On a boat though? Nothing but the wind baby, nothing but the wind. If I hadn't been born in late Nov., I think my mom would probably have given birth to me on the boat they had at the time☺ In other words, I've been boating and swimming all my life.
That little girl sounds just like me..lol. I would have said the exact same thing!! And anyway, you're supposed to look at all the stuff, not where you're walking!! I hope she learns to pick her feet up though, something I haven't quite mastered☺ The floor really is hard!!
Well girls, it's time to wake up my husband and our daughter, so we can get ready.
Terry, here's to it being a good day today.
I meant that things were flying in my eyes during to tornado. I should have been specific. ☺
Well. Where to even begin. How 'bout I'm done. Stick a fork in me, I'm so done. Phyllis' second cousin, Martha and her husband Al, wanted us to sit with them. Martha is asking me questions. I'm answering, quietly. Whispering is what we were doing. The conversation went on thru the service at various times, service over, the conversation continued. We weren't being rude, please don't misunderstand me. We're outside, right? No one, but Martha and Al, know what Martha and I are talking about. But youngest sons wife is standing behind me, I knew this. I said something and because they are all knowing, she, the youngest sons wife, bit my head off. She had no clue what we were talking about and how it related to her, is beyond me. First she told me, us, that "her husband did everything that Phyllis wanted". When I looked at her because how on earth did that relate to the conversation that Martha, Al and I were having? The look of pure hatred, the venom in her voice as she told me "to not even go there". Go where? I have taken my share of that "families" stuff, that I will not take anymore. Not again, not now, not ever. I am standing at a funeral home, at a funeral for her MIL, and she speaks to me like that? And if we had been discussing Phyllis' wishes, how would she know what Phyllis' wishes were? Was she there? Did she personally, ever ask? Short answer, no. And at the cemetery? What did they do? Have a 6 cell phone conversation about what that woman supposedly heard me say? Good grief. Cold shoulders is what I received, standing there at the cemetery. Poor Al and Martha. Standing, speaking to me, what terrible people they are now. sigh. Those 2 were begging me to go with them. Al almost picked me up and put me in their car to take me to the hall where the "family" was all gathering. I told him no. I've taken enough of their stuff and I won't take it anymore. I promised Phyl that I would make sure her family was alright. I did. I asked each and every one of them how they were, they all told me fine. Great, my promise is now fulfilled. Don't call me to clean, don't call me to paint, don't call me period. If Phyl had heard her DIL say that to me, she would be disgusted. Believe me, not many people disgusted her. Speaking to me like that? Shame shame shame. You know what? I haven't used their names. Now though, I don't care. Bob is the youngest son and his wife's name is Ellen. The oldest sons name is Rick. His wife is Norah. So, Bob and Ellen think that Phyl didn't like Norah? News flash!! Phyl didn't like Ellen. Not even a little. They want to walk around and think I know nothing about any of them and their lives. They would be shocked (and might I add dismayed) at what I know. If they want to hide from the truth? Be my guest. Just leave me out of it. I tolerated them because I loved Phyllis and it was the right thing to do, for her. Now? Nope, it ain't gonna happen. Forgive, yes, but I will never forget.
Other than that? Gee, my day was swell. Just peachy☺
Here I am, all dressed up for today.
I like backwards better☺
And here's hoping it's the right picture!!☺☺☺
My shoes, up close and personal☺
