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Noteworthy Archive Blog Award….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Three

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Thanks to our friend Just Ramblin’

Somehow our dear friend over at Just Ramblin seems to think this little blog has “Noteworthy” Archives.  I’m really not sure exactly HOW she came to this conclusion, because I have read back through some of my older posts and found that 1) some of them were not that great and 2) I was all over the place for the first couple of months I started blogging!

 
It took me quite a while to find my “voice” and decide just exactly what my blog would be centered around.  
 
Once I did there were/are times I struggle just trying to assemble a sentence, nevermind write an entire blog!  (Today seems to be one of them, as this just isn’t coming out the way I intended!)
 
So Just Ramblin’ I thank you so much for taking the time to read back through some of my earlier posts, deem them noteworthy and creating and bestowing this award on us. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Good Bye Irene….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Two

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Well Irene is gone.  We did survive, with lots of downed leaves and some small branches, but no loss of trees and no loss of electricity.  We were very blessed because there are still over 400,000 without power in this state. 🙁

We had lots of rain and lots wind from about 5:30 am to 12:00 pm; the dogs never even thought of going outside.  They were quite content to lay around and enjoy a lazy day.  There was no way they were going out in that rain….unless we were hiking. 😉

It got very calm shortly after noon and I debated whether I should risk it and take them out for a walk.  I waited and waited; finally about 3:30 I said, “Let’s go.”  I called my walking buddy and we headed out.

The park had lots of leaves and small branches down as well.

Due to all the rain, their favorite ‘puddle’ was back, so they enjoyed a little romp through the water with their pal, Brady.

We wandered the woods for about 45 minutes and then headed home.

Sometime around 7:00 pm the wind came back; with a vengeance.   At one point it got so loud, the dogs tore outside to see what the commotion was.  I decided it was best not to sleep in our room again, so the dogs and I camped out in the spare room, while Hubby took the scrapbook room.

When we went for our walk today, we found a lot of fallen trees from the evening wind.

We went this way yesterday and these trees weren’t down then.

We didn’t mind, we were grateful to be out enjoying our favorite park, letting the sweet smell of nature wash away the storms of yesterday.

Hanging In….Day Two Hundred, Seventy One

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As you know (unless you live under a rock) the east coast is being battered by a huge hurricane.  I would ask you to say a prayer for our friend Bonnie and Cody the Rescued Greyhound who soldiered it out in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.  Yesterday the family lost contact with her, so we pray they are ok.

After watching last night’s weather forecast, I decided the best place for us to spend the night was hunkered down in the scrapbook room.

As expected the dogs were slightly confused and a bit unsettled because we weren’t in our room and we weren’t in our bed!

I told Sampson it was ok, this is where we are sleeping, so he snagged his spot on the futon with Hubby.:-)

Delilah and I positioned ourselves on the mattress on the floor, she was lying down but in the alert position, she couldn’t relax.  Sampson and Hubby were up on the futon, when Sampson sat up.  He usually does this when he is ready to jump off the bed and onto the floor.  He also will do it when he is too warm in the bed. 

Hubby and I both spoke to them and almost simultaneously they switched position.  Delilah moving up next to Hubby and Sampson moving down next to me.  Within a minute both of them were settled down and relaxed, and they stayed that way all night. 🙂 

I got up a couple of times in the night and peeked out the windows, but everything seemed ok.

Delilah let me stay in bed until 6:55, did you read that?  6:55! Delilah never lets us stay in bed that late!

We got up to rain and lots of wind.  From my perch on the couch I can watch the pouring rain and swaying trees through the front window.  So far we still have power. (Knock on wood.) 

The worst is coming within the next three or four hours.

 

 

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