Monday, June 08, 2009

And the excitement continues

I think I need to quit with the joking around.
First I call my neighborhood "the hood" and next thing I know the SWAT team is parked up the street.
Then, I joke with friends that we're so far east of the metro area, that you can practically see Kansas.

But for the record, Dorothy, you may keep your twisters.
This baby sized funnel cloud proved exciting enough for us.....wind, rain and hail. The Things and I were hanging in the basement. Not because we're good people who listened to the warnings (because guess what, there was no warning except for the county north of us)...but because it's a great place to hang during a storm.

Hubby was on his motorcycle, coming back from a mountain adventure. For a change, being on the west side of town proved to be the safer spot for him.

And then after the storm passed ...DISASTER struck...yep, a power surge took out our modem. Leaving us stranded: no phone, no cable and worst of all...no face book for some 19 hours.

It was brutal I tell you: but somehow we survived and in doing so, we finished reading The Last Olympian, the laundry fairy came back AND she brought along the kitchen goddess and vacuum diva...

Life is good indeed
(and thanks to Eric M. for capturing a picture of the baby twister for us.)

6 comments:

Sitting In Silence said...

Whoa....I have never seen one of those....

Glad you are all ok....

shirley said...

Wow - cool pictures, (but somehow I don't think I would be out taking them). Glad to hear everything is OK.

ganelle said...

GEEZ! Thanks for making me feel better about moving!

Cyn M said...

Send me the Laundry Fairy, the Kitchen Goddess and the Vacuum Diva when you get finished with them! I need them in a big way here!
Funny! During the school year, there really isn't much upkeep to be done because I do it daily and keep it under control. But with Ben working afternoons and ripping up carpet in the new Baby's room and then Nathan with friends over, it sure is MESSY!!!
You really do have to stop the "hood" and "Kansas" stuff! You may end up wearing red shiny shoes and getting "rolled" for them! ;)

tz said...

great pictures...glad we missed it and glad it was over when we found out the boys were in the 'hood' w/out us.

Colleen O said...

Love the picture tour! And I can't wait for SPROUTS to sprout! Have you been? There's one in parker and it's fab.