A little damage to start the month off...

When I woke up today, there wasn't anything going on outside. There was a thunderclap or two - loud enough to make the dogs run laps around the living room, but that was about it. Around 3:30ish, the thunder intensified and the rain soon followed. After a couple minutes, the wind started blowing and what sounded like hail was hitting the house. Naturally, I ran to the door in hopes of getting carried away by a tornado. Luckily, there was no tornado to be seen, but there was a massive storm taking place. The hail was only pea sized, but the wind was powerful enough to bend trees nearly in two. This went on for about 10 minutes straight.

After things calmed down, LaVaughn and I decided to go to town and stock up on soda and glider fruit, just in case we would be stuck at the house for a couple days. As I'm sure I've mentioned this before, we live down a gravel road. It's pretty much just us - only three other houses share the mile long stretch of gravel, so there's hardly any traffic.

We started off and got about 1/6 mile down the road and noticed that there was a tree broke off and covering half of the road. There wasn't enough room to squeeze by, so we knew we were going to have to break out a little muscle and move the tree ourselves if we still intended on going to town. So that's what we did. It was a big bitch too, so it took us about 10 minutes to get it out of the way. We thought we were good to go, so we started off again. We drove probably 100 yards and found even more limbs and branches covering the road. So again, we got out and cleared the way. After that, we drove nearly all the way to the end where there was a massive branch covering the bridge that we have to cross. It was almost like it was put there as some kind of test. By this time, we were both sweaty, muddy and pissed so we ran at the limb like a couple of bulls on steroids and shoved it out of the way. It was by far the heaviest, so we will definitely feel it tomorrow.

On out way home, there was a guy and a woman clearing what we left with a chainsaw. I so badly wanted to roll the window down and shout, "Yup, did most of the work for you about 2 hours ago." I'm sure I had something better to say at the time, but you get the point.

Well, that concludes the slightly eventful day. Hope you enjoyed...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day Who'll Stop The Rain by CCR

Here are the pictures of the damage:

 Rain on the window.

 Raindrops are so beautiful.

 This was actually an entire tree broke off in the road.

 This was on the other side of the road. The tree was just split in two.

 Just some limbs and branches.

 More limbs and branches.

 That's all that we could move.

 Despite it's look - that limb was actually crazy heavy.

 This one, not so much.

This was probably the biggest thing we had to move. You may not be able to tell, but this branch was covering and entire bridge!

And now for a couple pictures of the cats during the storm:

 He looks nice ans sweet here, but I'm actually holding him down to get this picture.

Una is always a sweetie.

Damage at Des Arc Cemetary...

A couple days ago, LaVaughn and I drove out to the graveyard in Des Arc just to pass time. I think it's safe to say we were both shocked at the damage that had been done. There were trees down, branches blown all over the place and a collapsed building. It was crazy! And of all days, I didn't bring the camera with me, so I wasn't able to get any pictures. Then the next day (yesterday), we had to go grocery shopping in Fredericktown, so I still wasn't able to get any pictures. So today when I got up, I thought I would drive out there just to see if everything was the same. And to my surprise, it was. I figured the clean-up crew would've already been there and gone. Lucky for us, it hadn't.

In Robbie news, we've been able to get him out a little more lately. Thanks to they ever so awesome, Hannah, that is. She gave us the genius idea to sprinkle pepper at all of the places he scratches at. And so far so good. I just hope he doesn't learn to hold his breath, lol.

In glider news, everyone seems to be doing well. We were finally able to get them a papaya yesterday and they loved it! It seems like every time we go to the store, they're sold out. There was only 3 yesterday, so we nabbed the biggest one we could ger out hands on. We also got them some butternut squash and strawberries. I think we're going to be making them a little fruit smoothie and veggie relish later on tonight, but I'm not too sure. Not that any of this is of interest to you, I'm just bored and my A.D.D. is starting to kick in, hehe.

Lets see, what else has been going on? Well, we have to get another urine sample from Zoe this Sunday and take it to the vet Monday. Apparently the first one was got was bunk and they couldn't use it. That should be fun. I just hope she doesn't have crystals or stones in her urine. :(

Well, I suppose I've rambled enough for now. Time for some piano lessons, lol. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: The Chain by Fleetwood Mac (not a big FM fan, but this song is too great)

Here are the pics:



Off I go...

Well, today I had to take my grandma to dialysis again. So I've been gone all day. But, I still found time to blog. Cause that's what I do baby, lol. So here we go...

First, I'm going to rewind to last night. As you know, we got some more glider stuff in the mail today. But this time, we got a bigger box. And like always, it was filled with glorious little white things (not sure what you call them). So, we decided to keep it for Ben. So we got him out, sat in the floor, and waited for him to dive in. But... he didn't. He hated it! Well, I guess he didn't hate it, but he didn't like it as much as I though he would. He was in it for like 10 seconds. He's a punk ass. But, we got some pretty good pictures. And while I'm on the subject of Ben, I need to go ahead and share this with you. He has blood wings on his back. Well, not literally, but the shape of the hair on his back slightly resembles that of blood wings. And for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you should watch Pumpkinhead 2. That'll explain everything. Anyway, his hair has been falling out and growing back in like crazy. And right now, it looks a little weird. That's all though, just wanted to let you know...

Ok, we're still on last night. Well, we were thinking about selling some old stuff that we didn't want anymore. And where is the best place to sell stuff online for free? why craigslist of course. We decided to sell our old digital camera, ferret cage, a couple games, some movies, and a Moby Dick book (don't ask, lol). Well today around 5 or so, we got a call. And guess what the guy wanted? Our ferret cage. I couldn't believe it. It hadn't even been on craigslist for 24hrs. The guy said that we should consider it sold. So that was awesome. Then he was asking where we should meet. So, since he lives a few towns over, we decided to meet him half way. So then he was saying that he had to work all day tomorrow and that he might have his dad meet us up there instead. So he called his dad and had his dad call me and then we decided on a time. Which by the way is 4:00 tomorrow evening. So, hopefully everything works out and we get to sell the cage tomorrow.

Ok, back to today. On the drive from my grandma's to the dialysis center, I found 2 adorable little turtles on the side of the road. And I really, really love turtles. So naturally, I had to have them. So I found a box in the trunk of the car and stuck them in it. I was so excited at first, then I felt so bad. After I dropped my grandma off, I went to the car and got them out for a little bit. They were so cute but so pitiful too. So I decided to just let them go. But, at least I got to touch them. And I got a couple pictures of them. That's about all though...

Well, I think I'm done for today. Hope it wasn't too boring. Until next time, peace out and always remember to watch for turtles on the road.

-Megan

Song of the day: Across The Universe by The Beatles

This is the box of awesomeness.

This was such a great face shot of Ben, I just had to put it.

This picture turned out a little blurry, but it was too cute to pass up.

As you can see in this picture, he has a V shape on his back. So please, watch Pumpkinhead 2 and you'll understand everything.

And here are the beautiful little turtles that I got. They are so cute. Sorry the picture quality isn't that well. I had to take these with my phone.

This is the first one I got. He was a little bigger than the other one.

And this is the smaller one. They were both so cute...

Oh yea, I didn't even blog about this picture. This is just some of the damage that Fredericktown got. I just had to get a picture of all the trees that were down in the cemetary. It was horrible. too bad I didn't have the camera, then you could see them really good...