More Rain!

We have had rain off and on most of the day...sometimes just a drizzle and at others downpours!  This  robin may look rather spring-like, but if what I heard a few minutes ago, we are heading back down to cold temperatures once again.  I figured that we were just getting spoiled with spring-like temps.  Oh, well, this is typical pre-spring see-sawing back and forth between really pleasant days and then days that are downright cold.  I guess we just have to brace ourselves!

Woody did a little of our grocery shopping this morning.  I had a regular Thursday of school with most of the children.  After lunch, Donna and I worked in the church library for a while...doing maintenance and getting a new book order through the first steps of processing.  Woody had PT this afternoon...I think that next week they will be wrapping up his PT time and his rehab will be put solely on his shoulders.  We're both ready.

Kitchen plans may be getting closer to getting underway.  I think that I actually just printed off a contract to be signed by us and the contractor.  Still don't know when it will actually get underway, but things seem to be heading in the right direction.

Happy 17th, Graham!

With Days Like Today...

With days like today the promise of Spring seems very real.  It was a really pretty day!  I finally got a picture of our little miniature Dutch Iris and our mini jonquils...and, yes, they have finally seen their shadow!  It's so good to now had several days in a row without rain.

Woody walked outside for part of his PT today.  He went to the prayer room at church after we had supper and is now home.  I had a usual Tuesday school day, Esther "painted" with her water color pencils... a blue bird in a nest...I guess Esther is thinking Spring, too!  After school, I headed off to get my hair cut.  On the way home I stopped and bought some thread and some machine needles.  After the PT person left, I fixed out supper and we are a bit early since Woody was going to the prayer room.

Sunshine for a Change!

Tonight's photo is one that I took when I headed off with Nathan and family to check out the flooded areas.  I decided to try a panorama photo to show the ball field where Elijah played his Fall Ball games all the way back to the bridge that goes over Rock Creek.  The bridge is in the middle of the photo on the far right.  You can get a better feel for the picture if you click on it and make it bigger.  We are standing on the sidewalk that leads to the bridge...but we are as far as you could go at that time as the rest of the sidewalk was under water.  The yellow and black is the top of the baseball outfield fence.  All the outfield was under water...the water stopped at the infield when we were there.

At least it didn't rain yesterday or today.  But the flood waters are still rising.  Mudslides are happening and roads have washed out.  I'm glad that I can stay at home and not have to do much traveling on the back roads especially...though the worst mudslide happened on one of our interstates to the north of Nashville.

I had a normal day of school.  Joy painted during her long time.  She is painting with watercolors and likes to paint birds...or at least today's painting was of a bird.  Woody's home health nurse paid him a visit today.  Since he doesn't have the picc line, it was a pretty quick visit.  Things are starting to wind down with the home health folk.  By the second week in March, I think that he will be finished with nurse and PT visits.  We are both ready for those visits to stop!

This evening Woody went to the church for the Furnace Room Prayer meeting.  He is now home so I guess we are settling in for a quiet rest of the evening.

Should We Buy A Boat?

Here are pictures that Kathy took out her upstairs windows of our front and back yards this morning during one of the hard downpours that we have had today.  She posted them on FaceBook and someone tabbed them "Lake Dorrell!"  This afternoon I joined most of the neighbor Dorrell's in their van and headed out to see some of the nearby flooding.  I took a few pictures!  But I decided to use Kathy's for tonight's blog since it shows what it has looked like here.  I will say that it does sink into the ground once the rain ceases for a time...so it isn't standing water at the moment.  Boy is our ground saturated.  It feels all squishy when you walk on it.

Woody chose to stay in and keep dry today.  Not a lot of activity at our house today...a pretty quiet Saturday except for the sound of rain on our roof!  It's not raining at the moment, but there are still supposed to be some strong storms blow through tonight...then maybe by morning we will have a break in the rain for at least a couple of days.  Till then..."Glub! Glub!"

Friday Ins and Outs

These little dwarf irises are in full bloom at the moment...BUT...this is not a photo of the current blooms...and, I can tell without knowing when the photo was taken.  There has been no sun to produce shadows since these bloomed!

Woody's first trip out was to Kroger to get the rest of our groceries.  Then he came home and we both brought the groceries in.  I put them away and after Woody rested a couple of minutes he headed out again this time to take his friend shopping.  Abigail came over for her home ec time with me.  She worked some more on her quilt.  When Woody got home, I left and delivered some groceries that we had gotten for a friend.  After I got back, I got busy making a soup recipe.  While I was cooking, Woody's PT person came and put him through his paces.  When the soup was finished, Woody and I headed to the hospital to visit with friends at the hospital.  We came home and had supper and I have cleaned up the kitchen.  And, I think that there are no more "outs" for this day...that we are "in" for
the evening!

It has rained some today, but nothing like the last few days.  I think that it was just a respite for what is in store for us tomorrow...supposed to be some heavy storms tomorrow.

Do You Think It Will Rain?

I just made screen shots of the WeatherBug current radar (top photo...Tullahoma is the bottom red pin) and then took a picture of the estimated rainfall that we have had today, this month, and this year!  Talk about a wet year...I'm not sure how accurate these numbers are as they are estimated from the radar.  But I do know that we have had a lot.  Woody made the comment this morning that he bet our rain gauge was overflowing...I'm sure it is since we haven't made many trips out there to check on it...a bit too boggy underfoot!

I had school this morning.  Woody went to Aldis to knock that stop off his grocery shopping list tomorrow.  He made his Apple Zucchini bread after lunch.  I headed off after lunch to work in the library for a little while.  Donna and I did maintenance.  When I got home I made a book order and plan to make another one.  Just before I headed out the door to go to the library, the phone rang and Woody's PT person called to say she was coming.  She is a new face amongst the care givers that we have seen over the last weeks. She is coming back tomorrow...guess they have to get in their two times in the week!  Till tomorrow...unless we float away!