Sunday, April 15, 2007
What is up with the weather????
Both of my sisters have been affected by the weather for the past 2 days.
My youngest (T) lives in the Ozark mountains. On Friday, just as I was leaving work my father called to tell me T's house had been struck by lightening and that they had had a fire because of it. He sounded very "no big deal" about it so I wasn't concerned. Today my mom called me to tell that they didn't just have a fire because of it, they are now homeless because of it.
They live in a house that's built into a hill. A vent to their house travels straight up through the hill. Lightening went through that vent into their laundry room, blew out through her brand new dryer, and through the electrical lines throughout the whole house, and even to their well outside.
Thankfully the plans they had for that day had changed a bit. She was supposed to go with her DH into town (they live in the middle of nowhere) and her 14 yo DS was supposed to babysit his 3 yo and >1 yo brothers. What ended up happening was she stayed home with the baby and her DH took the two older boys, AND they got a late start. I cannot imagine how freaked out my nephew may have been or the tragedy that may have happened if they had gone into town and left the boys at home.
Anyway BIL had just arrived home and she was standing outside talking to him when the lightening struck. She thought it struck between the dog "barn" (she used to raise pugs) and the pasture. It frightened her so she ran everyone in the house. No sooner had they got into the house then the smoke alarms went off. Then the oldest came running down the hall yelling "fire" and she turned to tell him to stop being so overdramatic that he'd scare the babies when smoke came rolling out of the laundry room (which is next to nephew's room).
Everyone got out okay. She even grabbed diapers and formula but forgot to grab bottles (the firemen brought them out to her after they got the fire out!). They got both the trucks out of the garage and BIL got the hose out and tried to get water into the attic while Sis called 911. She said she had no idea how panicked she was until she heard herself talking to 911. All this time she's holding the baby. She handed baby off to big brother and went in and out of the house a few times getting blankets to keep the kids warm and tried to see if she could help BIL. She said she knew it was hopeless as soon as she got near since she could hear the fire roaring.
I talked to her on the phone a little while ago and the power company is there trying to restore power so they can maybe get the well back up. The insurance company has put them in a 2 room hotel and they're going to see if they'll get a trailer out on the property to live in for the next 6 months or so while their home is rebuilt. She says the most upsetting part of all this was seeing her babies' clothing laying on the floor all burnt up and imagine them wearing them. Needless to say by that time we were both in tears.
Yesterday my sis that lives near Dallas got caught up in a tornado that hit there. Fortunately they're okay and sustained no damage.
One more reason to hate living so far away from my family.
My youngest (T) lives in the Ozark mountains. On Friday, just as I was leaving work my father called to tell me T's house had been struck by lightening and that they had had a fire because of it. He sounded very "no big deal" about it so I wasn't concerned. Today my mom called me to tell that they didn't just have a fire because of it, they are now homeless because of it.
They live in a house that's built into a hill. A vent to their house travels straight up through the hill. Lightening went through that vent into their laundry room, blew out through her brand new dryer, and through the electrical lines throughout the whole house, and even to their well outside.
Thankfully the plans they had for that day had changed a bit. She was supposed to go with her DH into town (they live in the middle of nowhere) and her 14 yo DS was supposed to babysit his 3 yo and >1 yo brothers. What ended up happening was she stayed home with the baby and her DH took the two older boys, AND they got a late start. I cannot imagine how freaked out my nephew may have been or the tragedy that may have happened if they had gone into town and left the boys at home.
Anyway BIL had just arrived home and she was standing outside talking to him when the lightening struck. She thought it struck between the dog "barn" (she used to raise pugs) and the pasture. It frightened her so she ran everyone in the house. No sooner had they got into the house then the smoke alarms went off. Then the oldest came running down the hall yelling "fire" and she turned to tell him to stop being so overdramatic that he'd scare the babies when smoke came rolling out of the laundry room (which is next to nephew's room).
Everyone got out okay. She even grabbed diapers and formula but forgot to grab bottles (the firemen brought them out to her after they got the fire out!). They got both the trucks out of the garage and BIL got the hose out and tried to get water into the attic while Sis called 911. She said she had no idea how panicked she was until she heard herself talking to 911. All this time she's holding the baby. She handed baby off to big brother and went in and out of the house a few times getting blankets to keep the kids warm and tried to see if she could help BIL. She said she knew it was hopeless as soon as she got near since she could hear the fire roaring.
I talked to her on the phone a little while ago and the power company is there trying to restore power so they can maybe get the well back up. The insurance company has put them in a 2 room hotel and they're going to see if they'll get a trailer out on the property to live in for the next 6 months or so while their home is rebuilt. She says the most upsetting part of all this was seeing her babies' clothing laying on the floor all burnt up and imagine them wearing them. Needless to say by that time we were both in tears.
Yesterday my sis that lives near Dallas got caught up in a tornado that hit there. Fortunately they're okay and sustained no damage.
One more reason to hate living so far away from my family.
Labels: family
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
My job is killing me
Okay, not really, but being back to work, even just half-time, is really wearing me out. Last week I took a nap every afternoon when I got home. I’m going to try to NOT nap this week. I got very little stitching done and what stitching I did do was on French Alphabet Sampler. I was just too tired to fiddle with changing projects. I’m trying to get myself into more of a normal routine this week and will be changing to Justine today when I get home. Maybe doing that will keep my mind off taking a nap! LOL No progress picture right now, but when I get home this afternoon and switch over, I’ll post a progress picture then.
Bandit is perfectly happy with me not being home as much. More sleeping time for him, but Harley is missing me. I can tell by the clothes she’s dragging out of the hamper. They’re all mine. I think it’s the perfume since it’s just my tops. She’s such a sweetie, even though I talk about her bad habits. Every morning when I get out of the shower she’s thrilled to see me like I’ve been gone all day. She will roll over and “ask” for her pink tummy to be scritched. Boss gave me 3 mylar helium balloons as a welcome back and she's having a blast dragging them around the house by the strings. Bandit is scared to death of them and will jump in my lap or hide under my desk when she gets to going with them.
Tomorrow is Husband’s 50th birthday. He’s like a good bottle of scotch and has aged very well. I’ve already given him his birthday gift, but we’ll probably be going out to dinner tomorrow evening.
Bandit is perfectly happy with me not being home as much. More sleeping time for him, but Harley is missing me. I can tell by the clothes she’s dragging out of the hamper. They’re all mine. I think it’s the perfume since it’s just my tops. She’s such a sweetie, even though I talk about her bad habits. Every morning when I get out of the shower she’s thrilled to see me like I’ve been gone all day. She will roll over and “ask” for her pink tummy to be scritched. Boss gave me 3 mylar helium balloons as a welcome back and she's having a blast dragging them around the house by the strings. Bandit is scared to death of them and will jump in my lap or hide under my desk when she gets to going with them.
Tomorrow is Husband’s 50th birthday. He’s like a good bottle of scotch and has aged very well. I’ve already given him his birthday gift, but we’ll probably be going out to dinner tomorrow evening.
Monday, February 12, 2007
RR stitching
Not much to report on the stitching front. I received this round of Quaker RR I'm participating in and had 1 week to get it stitched. It was supposed to be mailed today, but I'll do it tomorrow on the way home from work. This is from Quaker Style Friendship Sampler by Samplers and Such. On two more people to stitch for and then they come home.
Yep, work. Tomorrow will be my first time back to work after surgery. It's hard for me to believe I've been off for 2 months. My last day of work was December 8. This is really going to cut into my stitching time! LOL
Since I spent the weekend catching up on the RR, I'm working on French Alphabet Sampler today instead of Castle Sampler.
These are my two lazybones. Bandit loves to get under the comforter and sleep. We don't even bother pulling it up all the way anymore because he just musses it all up anyway. Harley has the puppy metabolism going on and she gets too hot under there but she MUST be as close to Bandit as she can be so she practically lays on top of him, just on top of the comforter. Right now I have the blinds open in the bedroom and the sun is shining on the bed. They're both sprawled out sunbathing.
I received my Valentine from Husband. He bought me a new iPod Shuffle, in my fave color. I'm probably the only person I know who didn't have an iPod something or other. He even got it engraved "Chocolate for your ears"