Finally! We Get A Decent Rain...But No Thunderstorm

Instead of a tease, today we got some decent rain.  Poor Baron needed to go out to do his duty but he and rain are not friends....LOL.  But the flowers, my bulbs and the veggies the Beast planted will do much better because there are few chemicals in our rain.  I say *few* because you don't know what might have been picked up along the way but we have no manufacturing sites anywhere near us.  We do have two different chicken plants nearby but they don't even emit a smell that's noticeable when you drive past them.  Go figure.

The bad part about the rain was that it made sure the humidity was 100% and it kept the day from warming up.  I had to turn on both my baseboard heater and the small one on my desk to try to take the chill out of the air in my computer room.  Brrr!  So far, it hasn't helped a whole lot but I just turned up the heat on them both.  I'll be crawling under warm covers soon, however, so I will turn them down once I go to bed.

The Beast was out this morning with some of his church group and said he would be home around noon or 12:30.  When he wasn't home by 2, I got worried and called him.  No answer.  But he called me back at 2:30 when he got back to the car and saw I had called.  He's always leaving his phone in the car and then wonders why some people get mad at him because he forgets to bring it in the house so he never returns their calls.  He *forgot* to call me to say he was going to lunch with one of the families and then they wanted to take him to a local store called *Little Lots* which he says was anything BUT little.  It said it was several times bigger than our Super Walmart.  It also had a lot of very interesting things in it.  He came home with a free drinking cup that has two parts to it...one section (an insert that screws into it) that holds cut lemons and the big section is for your water.  

I talked to my sister, Cee, today and she informed me that there is an Aldi's being built next to our Lowe's.  I checked online and discovered that it is open already but the Grand Opening isn't until May 5th.  So she is coming over to pick me up in late morning (the Beast and I have to drop off one of the cars at the Toyota dealer in the morning due to a recall) and we are going first to her apartment so I can see it and then to Aldi's to look around.  We might even buy a few things after we see how well they are stocked.  When Aldi's first opened up in Gadsden, the Beast found it poorly stocked and didn't buy anything since nothing appealed to him.  Me?  I'm looking forward to getting some of the frozen shrimp they had, both butterfly and uncooked ones.  I found them excellent when I got some at the Aldi's in the Chicago area where my sister-in-law always shopped.  She did the majority of her shopping there and only went to other stores for fresh produce and fruits for the most part.

Since Cee is calling me when she gets up, I will mention to her about the car thing and she will probably have me call her when we get back home.  That way she won't be faced with an empty house and wonder where the hell I am....LOL!

The Beast made us some great hamburgers tonight.  I know they have a name but it escapes me right now.  He cooked the hamburgers and some grilled onion then added something that ISN'T on the sandwich I'm thinking of....cheese....he put them all on rye bread and grilled them to perfection.  They were wonderful.  Tasty and different.  We will do that again soon.

Poor Baron went nuts when the Beast was making them.  He wanted some.  Because of the way he was begging without begging, the Beast made him a plain hamburger and put it in his bowl.  Baron actually was licking his bowl like it was the tastiest thing he had ever had in it.  The bowl was empty but Baron kept licking every drop of the tasty grease out of it until he was satisfied he hadn't missed any.  He probably wanted the sandwich but it had onions on it so he couldn't have any.  Onions are poisonous to a dog.

It's really cold outside still.  I had plans on going out to the cottage to get some yarn but, by the time the Beast got home (he had locked the door to the cabin and I don't have a key on my key chain for it  (Trust the Beast to forget where the spare is!), it was pouring here so there went that idea.  Wherever it was that the Beast was with his friends, they didn't get any rain until it was time for him to head home.  Figures, right?

Well, it's an early (for me) bedtime here so I am going to post this.  I hope you all had a more enjoyable day or you could stay indoors, warm and toasty.  Have a great Friday (TGIF) and stay warm and dry.  Spring will soon be FULLY here and warm days for all of us.  ***Hugs***