Although we were under a tornado watch in our area, none showed up...thank goodness! But we were *blessed* (?) with a really terrible storm. It was the wind that was so bad. It came in gusts that were 45mph and it drove the rain like you wouldn't believe. Areas that we had never seen an accumulation of rain that was NOT soaking into the ground was filling up areas like pools and running down to cause flash flooding in many areas.
Of course I chose today to meet up with the Princess to pick up Chewlee and bring her home. There was a pause in the rain just as I met up with them after Chewlee's piano lesson. It enabled me to easily get home before dark (we met up around 4:30pm). I was home a little before 5pm mainly because the way I chose to go home was rain free and the wind had settled down when the rain stopped.
I went to Cee's house around 1pm and shortly after arriving there (raining all the way), the really severe part of the storm hit. We watched it hitting her patio doors with awful force for about an hour. The wind relented a bit and it didn't seem so bad after that. The lot next to her was flooded and you could see it rushing towards a drain at the back of the lot. The drain wasn't doing a great job but at least it SEEMED to still be working. She and I just sat around, talking about this and that, until it was almost time for me to meet up with the Princess. I had a few things I told the Beast that I would pick up on my way home. Cee and I had thought we might go shopping together until the storm got so bad that we gave up on THAT idea. I had wanted to go see the new Hobby Lobby that just opened up.
Chewlee and I ate the spaghetti that the Beast had prepared for dinner. It was really tasty but he never uses enough sauce. We will have to add more tomorrow. I had chopped all the veggies for it before I left to go to Cee's house. I took my umbrella with me since the rain started before I left. I discovered that the umbrella is NOT a big help in a high wind like we had. It flexed and bent a lot unless you pointed it into the wind. Even then it flexed and bent but at least it wasn't trying to fly into the storm and out of my hands. The umbrella I bought is over-sized (like the golfing ones) and I still haven't really looked at it to see if any damage was done that will affect it. I didn't try to close it when I put it in the back after doing my little bit of shopping.
Chewlee chose a couple of Harry Potter movies to watch (her favorite ones) and told me with total shock that her mother and dad were actually watching them! I think it was her dad that surprised her the most but it DID seem to make her happy that they were sharing her favorite movies. Tomorrow we get to watch the Deathly Hallows ones (there are two episodes). She already informed me of that before we went to bed earlier tonight. I feel bad because I never DID check to see if she had brushed her teeth when she put on her pajamas. It tickled me that she thanked me for the pajamas and the lip balm I had given her AND they were the pajamas she brought to wear while she is here. Hopefully, I get to keep her for two days! Two whole days! I love it!
We had ten minutes or so of sharing our thoughts on intimate things on our minds when we lay down to go to sleep. I thought I was having a tough time going to sleep even though I was really tired. I was so tired that I actually had a problem with waking enough to walk right....LOL. It took me about two minutes to wake enough to get where I was headed, take care of business and resupply the toilet paper because I used up the last of the roll. If Chewlee got up and needed to go to the bathroom, I knew she couldn't reach the shelf that it was on.
It was weird for me to open the computer room door and find total darkness. I mean TOTAL. If it weren't for the little light on my speakers, I wouldn't have had any perspective of where things were located. I wanted to get my blog written and off my mind. I think that was the real reason I woke for the bathroom since I don't usually when I sleep on the guest bed. Chewlee wanted to know who's bedroom it had been and, when I told her, she was surprised. It had been the room she shared with her mother when they lived with us after first being moved up here from Florida. We went down with our trailer (an enclosed one back then) and moved her and her mother up here with the help of the Beast's cousin, Butch. He had helped US move from our house in Port Charlotte, too.
One of the things that Chewlee and I shared was how hard it was for me to NOT have her here after having her almost full time while her mother was working and going to school. Chewlee always went home with her mother on the weekends but it was ME that got her up (at 5am) and got her ready for school, waited with her for the school bus and waited for her when it delivered her after school. She was like MY little one for a couple years and, suddenly, when the Princess got pregnant with Gunner and she quit working AND going to school, Chewlee was GONE! It was a real shock not to have her here at all. Her mother now had to be the one to get her up for school, etc., etc.
You would think, at my age, that I would have been relieved but I wasn't. I really missed her and have no idea now of special days at her school. If they have a Grandparents Day at her new school, like they did at her old one, I am not told about it by the Princess. I don't get the automatic notifications like her old school sent me (via my cell phone). I felt a real loss almost like she had died or been suddenly snatched away from me. It was awful and I STILL miss that.
I did find out that she loves the new house (who wouldn't!) and she likes being with her mother....most of the time! LOL...she is such a child but you can see that what she is feeling is normal. It's just a small shot at what her mother will go through with her when she becomes a teenager. She will be 9 in a few months and the time will fly after that. It bothers her that her dad doesn't hug her or tuck her into bed and give her a goodnight kiss. He hugs Gunner and she feels the difference in his attitude towards her. My heart broke when she told me that. I know Johnnycakes would love to adopt her but her paternal grandfather would help his son fight that even though her biological father wouldn't have much to do with her except that his father makes him when he has his times with Chewlee. For the first time I heard her use the word *step-father* when she referred to Johnnycakes. I KNOW that came from her other grandfather.
Well, time to put this post to bed. Love you all and please be careful about the weather. This storm front (Goliath by name and it fits) is just awful and is causing so much harm while it is passing. Just another couple days of it but the affects I am seeing on TV make you cringe. Take notice of storm warnings in your area and prepare for it. Stay aware and, remember, if you see water running over the road *Turn around and don't drown*. ***Hugs***
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