The Compulsive Ramblings Of A Philotherian: who'll stop the rain

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.

It's more like rainy days, but I love them both the same. I woke up to a dark and dreary day today and decided to take advantage. Rainy days make for fantastic photos. The lighting isn't too dark and it isn't too light. Unless the wind is blowing, then it's completely pointless to even try.

I managed to get some pretty decent pictures today. Not a whole bunch, but enough. There's only so many places around the yard that I haven't photographed. That's why I like finding bugs, they're always different and always changing and adapting to their surrounding.

Anyway, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time, you know where to find me...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Who'll Stop The Rain by Credence Clearwater Revival

Here are the pics:

I just love ground webs.

Especially if they have raindrops on them. :)

These pretty white flowers are all over the yard.

I thought this looked nice.

Attack of the bugs!

Fall brings with it a massive killing power.

These kinds of photos never get old.

Bonus Gallery!

Since I'm blogging, I may as well give an update on Robbie and share all the random pictures that I forgot to share yesterday. Robbie was showing some mass improvements last night. He was making his happy noise and even started hopping around! Seeing this was one of the best things I've seen in days!

Here are the pics of him and some others from last night: