Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Latestarter]

Didn't really have time to jump... the flash and the bang were simultaneous. Love T-storms, but not the prospect of getting hit by lightning. Have had several very close calls in my life already. When I was a kid, we would run around outside in the rain. I was headed down the outside basement stairs to go inside, soaking wet, standing on wet concrete in a puddle at the basement door and a bolt about 3" in diameter went over my shoulder, through the door's glass window and hit the fuse box in the basement. Burned out every fuse in the box.

 

[Latestarter]

Well, about to head off to bed. Wanted a last look at the weather radar. Starting to hear an almost continuous rumble to the west so I know it's coming. Looks like the heaviest stuff is going to be right on top of @Devonviolet very soon. Might stay north of you @Baymule but you may catch the southern edge of it. Gonna be a rough night from the looks/sounds of it. Hope to sleep like a baby.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Just looked at the radar and it looks like ya are covered up down there with some pretty heavy stuff heading in....may have to breakout the pancho to tend to morning rounds....be Careful!!

 

[Bruce]

Oh, me too Fred. Doesn't look like it is going to be too pleasant in Mt. Pleasant.

The rain is slacking up and my internet came back on!! Trip was about to break the window to get in, so we brought him in the house. He is laying on the floor, still uneasy, but happy to be in here with us.

You might want to try a "thundershirt". @Beekissed had very good success using one with Ben.

 

[Baymule]

I slept like a rock last night. I guess we need a rainy day to make us stay inside and get some rest. LOL Between working around here and babysitting 3 grands, we are on constant go. The humidity kept us in under the AC yesterday, could pop a sweat standing under a shade tree doing nothing. Ugh.

It has rained all night, still raining, still thundering. Trip is on the porch looking in. @Bruce I don't think they make thundershirts large enough to fit Trip. I might have to make him one-eventually. All my sewing machines are crammed in a closet.

I caught my mean rooster last night and put him in a pet carrier for slaughter this morning. I am sick and tired of that mean bas%*^# flogging me. I go in his coop with a 4' club-batter up style. When it stops raining, he's going to freezer camp. Our 2 year old grand daughter (we kept all 3 for a couple days/nights so parents could get some sleep) said "Eat that mean rooster!" I asked her if she wanted some rooster soup and she said, "Yes I do!" So I guess next time she's here, we'll take him out of the freezer and cook him up. LOL LOL LOL

I just tried to post this, but we're getting another wave of hard rain that has knocked out the TV and internet. The TV is frozen on a frame that is showing tennis shoes for dogs and has a Lab sporting some really stupid looking tennis shoes, lying down on fake grass, panting and looking confused. Who does that to their dog? I guess people who live in concrete jungles and their poor dogs have nothing to walk on but scorching hot concrete. Not so with OUR dogs! They have dirt! Well that picture just went away, now it is an infomercial for cleaning products.

I just had to let Trip in. He was standing in a lawn chair, peering in with a hopeful look. I was rolling! He looked so funny, balancing his huge body in a lawn chair! He backed down very carefully when I opened the door and invited him in. We got a good laugh out of that one!

Internet is back on! Thanks LS for letting me ramble on.......

 

[Devonviolet]

DH just emptied the rain gauge, to make room for the continuing rain. So far, we have 4-3/4"!!!

I got up early this morning, to milk early enough, that we could make it to church by 9:00. At that time, we had 3-1/2" and it was pouring buckets!

We have a small church, so schedules can be flexible. I called & talked to pastor's wife, to let them know we would be waiting for the rain to let up before milking the goats. At that point they were getting even heavier rain than we were, so a decision was made to delay church. This Sunday is our monthly "Fellowship Dinner", and we don't want to miss that, now do we??!!!

DH was already out in his rain suit, to feed the animals. It's still raining, so I will wait a bit longer to go out and milk the girls.

In the mean time, I'm soaking my feet in Epsom Salt. This weather has done a number on the arthritis in my feet - especially the right ankle.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sure hope the feet get better....I've been dealing with the knee and foot during the past several days, so I understand the soaking.....hope the dinner goes well and the rain lets up enough for ya to tend to the girls and make it to that dinner.....

 

[Baymule]

One thing a rainy day is good for..... a duck egg frittata with minced onion, fresh mushrooms topped with Swiss cheese. And a whole wheat roll spread with home made peach jam.

 

[CntryBoy777]

......looks and sounds Yummy!!

 

[Latestarter]

I can picture poor, abused, Trip standing in a lawn chair staring in at the cool, dry, comfy owners with that puppy dog look begging to be let in. But at the same time, yeah Gotta love our dogs, they are special creatures. You are welcome to ramble on here any old time you please. That is a LOT of rain DV... I just emptied my gauge and it was only 2 1/4 inches. Maybe it rained so hard that the rain drops blocked each other out from entering the gauge? Nah... really, the heaviest stuff has been N & S of me. Though it did come down buckets for a bit around 4:30am. The heaviest stuff now is all over in SW Arkansas and moving into NW LA.

I went out and milked an hour late this morning. They've all been hiding in the shelter all night. Time to replace the tarp on the shelter. Between the sun burning the fabric and causing pin holes that leak, and the goats jumping up against it outside, and pushing their heads through it from inside, I think there was as much water inside as outside. I laid down a big black trash can liner to kneel on while milking and felt my knee descending into the quagmire right through the bag. It's a wet squishy mess in there, even though I threw down a bunch of old hay yesterday to help with the dampness.

Sorry your feet are bothering you DV. Hope the soak helps. Also hope you're able to make it to church and the dinner. And as I typed that, Bay posted that picture of her breakfast... Very nice! I finished bacon and eggs w/toast before coming on here. I have to say I'm becoming less and less impressed with hormel pork products. Their black label bacon used to be my "go to" but more and more lately it seems they are packing "scraps" in there vice bacon strips. It's stringy and curls into impossible to cook evenly shapes. It doesn't taste the same either... I'm equally not impressed with the quality of their pork chops as they are cut unevenly, sloppy, and covered in "saw dust" bone meal and chips. Guess I'm going to have to get my own pork... soon.

OK, having typed all that, I'm recliner bound. Hope all have a wonderful Sunday.