About the time we were getting ready for bed Thursday night, we began to hear thunder rumbling and then rain coming down. Within an hour or so the thunder had stopped, but the rain continued on and off all night long. The sky was still very overcast when we woke up yesterday morning, and it […]
We are bracing for several rounds of severe storms starting tonight and lasting through Sunday morning. The weatherman says we can expect golf ball sized hail, heavy rain, thunderstorms, and the very real possibility of long-track tornadoes. It sounds like it might get ugly. In the two years we’ve been here, we’ve never had to […]
Things are starting to dry out after the heavy rain we had on Wednesday, and the weather has also taken a decided turn away from the heat of the summer to suddenly being downright chilly. I think the warmest it got yesterday was in the upper 60s, or maybe as high as 70. The weatherman […]
More than once I’ve said here in the blog that the weatherman often speaks with a forked tongue, because many times his predictions are off. But this time he got it right. As I wrote yesterday, the forecast was for wind, heavy rain, some local flooding, and the possibility of isolated tornadoes, all part of […]
After days of the weatherman telling us we were going to have rain and not getting any, while our son Travis would get poured on at his house about five miles away as the crow flies, yesterday we finally got rain. Lots and lots of rain. Travis and Gila were coming over in the afternoon, […]
Most of Alabama has been suffering from a severe drought for months now, but I’m pretty sure that’s over after the last two weeks. Between the heavy rains we got the last week of January and more rain on Sunday, with accumulations of two to three inches or more both times, and another storm that […]
I apologize for not posting a blog yesterday. Strong storms were predicted for our area on Saturday, and we were under a tornado watch through the evening until midnight. At first it seemed like the storm system was going to go around us but about 10:30 it hit fast and hard. We had lots of […]
What seems like never-ending rain has kept me from doing much work with my Kubota BX2680 tractor since we moved here, but we finally had a few rare days of sunshine that helped dry things out a bit. So the other day I loaded the tractor into the back of our fourteen-foot cargo trailer to […]
When I woke up yesterday morning my hopes that the last few days of good weather would help dry out our ground were dashed when I looked outside and saw that it had rained again overnight and we had more pools of water to deal with. How fun. ☹ If it would ever start to […]
We woke up to thunder, lightning, and heavy rain yesterday morning, and it kept up all day long. By evening the thunder and lightning had moved offshore and out over the Atlantic, but the rain continued, although not nearly as heavy as it was. No complaints here, our yard and trees really needed it. During […]
I have been saying happy birthday to different women in my family all week here in the blog, and I told you that there were more to come. And sure enough, there are! Today we celebrate not just one birthday, but two of them. My cousins Bernie (above) and Beverly (below) share the same birthday, […]