We've had a few chilly days here this week, but the flowers have been blooming and the temperature is starting to warm up a bit. The sun is shining now and it's just gorgeous. These flowers are in my driveway:
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Last night's storm was a monster...
Happy Sunday, all:
Well, we managed to escape the storm. I still cannot believe it. The two storm cells that were almost touching on radar split apart slightly as they moved down to N. Charleston, where Ed and I live. It was friggin amazing to watch, and WE were located dead center of the split. One cell went to the north of us and one to the south.
There was at least one confirmed tornado that touched down in Summerville, doing the most damage in a trailer park called "Strawberry Community". Ed's worker, Thomas, as well as Pauletti's brother-in-law live in Summerville, which is a short distance from where we live, which is upper N. Charleston close to Goose Creek. This storm was also said to have produced baseball and even GRAPEFRUIT sized hail in some areas.
Earlier in the evening I had called my sister Peggy, who lives about 2 hours (by car) northwest of me in Aiken, SC, to tell her a storm was coming. She knew and was already preparing for it, got her horses locked up in the barn, let the dogs out to pee, etc.
After the storm left Aiken, Peggy took her flashlight and walked her property to find two trees uprooted that had taken out two sections of her paddock fencing, and another that had snapped in half and taken out a third part of her paddock fencing. They lost power, which means they also have no water because they have a well with an electric pump. Dad also has no power for his oxygen machine and is using his small portable oxygen tanks sparingly until the power comes back. Last night she said "mom, dad and Aunt El (who are usually glued to the TV in the evening) are sitting in the living room reminiscing". They were having a grand old time after the storm...lol! Peggy told me she would go out early this morning to see if she can find gallons of water to buy at the store if the power wasn't back on. She'll also be sending me photos later of storm damage.
This is the same storm system that has wreaked havoc in Atlanta, GA these past few days. Of course, being a major city, Atlanta is getting most of the news coverage, but there was plenty of damage all along this storm path that is not getting news coverage. It was a monster of a storm.
Well, we managed to escape the storm. I still cannot believe it. The two storm cells that were almost touching on radar split apart slightly as they moved down to N. Charleston, where Ed and I live. It was friggin amazing to watch, and WE were located dead center of the split. One cell went to the north of us and one to the south.
There was at least one confirmed tornado that touched down in Summerville, doing the most damage in a trailer park called "Strawberry Community". Ed's worker, Thomas, as well as Pauletti's brother-in-law live in Summerville, which is a short distance from where we live, which is upper N. Charleston close to Goose Creek. This storm was also said to have produced baseball and even GRAPEFRUIT sized hail in some areas.
Earlier in the evening I had called my sister Peggy, who lives about 2 hours (by car) northwest of me in Aiken, SC, to tell her a storm was coming. She knew and was already preparing for it, got her horses locked up in the barn, let the dogs out to pee, etc.
After the storm left Aiken, Peggy took her flashlight and walked her property to find two trees uprooted that had taken out two sections of her paddock fencing, and another that had snapped in half and taken out a third part of her paddock fencing. They lost power, which means they also have no water because they have a well with an electric pump. Dad also has no power for his oxygen machine and is using his small portable oxygen tanks sparingly until the power comes back. Last night she said "mom, dad and Aunt El (who are usually glued to the TV in the evening) are sitting in the living room reminiscing". They were having a grand old time after the storm...lol! Peggy told me she would go out early this morning to see if she can find gallons of water to buy at the store if the power wasn't back on. She'll also be sending me photos later of storm damage.
This is the same storm system that has wreaked havoc in Atlanta, GA these past few days. Of course, being a major city, Atlanta is getting most of the news coverage, but there was plenty of damage all along this storm path that is not getting news coverage. It was a monster of a storm.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
New PC
My new PC arrived!
Ed bought me a new CPU for my birthday, and since UPS dropped it off last evening I've been installing my programs on it and tweaking it. It FLIES!
Thank you, Ed!
Ed bought me a new CPU for my birthday, and since UPS dropped it off last evening I've been installing my programs on it and tweaking it. It FLIES!
Thank you, Ed!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Tuesday Evening
Wow-WEE did we get hit with a storm today; wind, rain, thunder and lightening. Thankfully it was fast-moving and didn't last all that long.
Daisy got a bath today, I studied, went grocery shopping with Ed and now I'm waiting for a polymer clay pendant to come out of the oven. It's very close in style to the "joy" pendant I'm using for my myspace image, and it is a belated birthday present to a friend who expressed liking it a lot.
After that's done I'll probably hang in the living room with Ed and watch some TV.
Daisy got a bath today, I studied, went grocery shopping with Ed and now I'm waiting for a polymer clay pendant to come out of the oven. It's very close in style to the "joy" pendant I'm using for my myspace image, and it is a belated birthday present to a friend who expressed liking it a lot.
After that's done I'll probably hang in the living room with Ed and watch some TV.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Peggy's new baby Parotlett
Two days ago I blogged about my sister going to get a new baby bird. Well, here he is!...
He doesn't have a name yet, but he's a cutie!
Prehistoric shark teeth hunting today
Okay, I promised to share the pictures with you, so here they are. We did find a few small teeth and interesting bone fragments and such.
And the direction we walked in:
Ed filling the strainer with gravel and sand to sift through. You can see the bandage on his finger where he almost cut his finger off with a saw at a job a couple of days ago. He needed 4 stitches in the ER:
This is the area we started from
Ed filling the strainer with gravel and sand to sift through. You can see the bandage on his finger where he almost cut his finger off with a saw at a job a couple of days ago. He needed 4 stitches in the ER: 
Two of Ed's finds:
Some of what we found:
My feet stayed dry, but the water wicked up my pants:
Some of what we found:
My feet stayed dry, but the water wicked up my pants:Ed really got IN the water:
This was most definitely something living at one time, and now it's rock-hard petrified:
This was most definitely something living at one time, and now it's rock-hard petrified:
Alien face rock:
Sunday 02-24-08
We just arrived back home after spending the morning at the flea market. I found a like-new, 2-burner hot plate type thingy that I picked up for $15.00, which I'll use for melting embossing powder and other crafty type stuff, and a couple of things for my sister's upcoming birthday (she might read this so I can't reveal what I got).
It's clouding up pretty well right now, but if it doesn't rain Ed and I are going to "panning" for prehistoric shark's teeth (see my myspace blog for our last outing and pictures) and hopefully I'll have some photos to share of what we find later on today. Wish me luck!
It's clouding up pretty well right now, but if it doesn't rain Ed and I are going to "panning" for prehistoric shark's teeth (see my myspace blog for our last outing and pictures) and hopefully I'll have some photos to share of what we find later on today. Wish me luck!
Friday, February 22, 2008
Today.
Yes, today is my birthday. I made it another year!
My sister is, as I type this, driving 6-1/2 hours to Virginia to pick up her new baby Parrotlet from a breeder. Therefore, she needed me to drive to Aiken to look after mom and her menagerie of critters for the day. Daisy and I left my home in Charleston at 4:00 a.m., arrived in Aiken at 6:20, and Peggy left around 8:00. I'll most likely be spending the night here, and most of the day alternating between studying and beading when I'm not looking after mom.
It's been raining, thundering and lightening since I arrived, but that's just fine with me. If it were a beautiful sunny day out I'd find it hard to concentrate on studying. LOL
My sister is, as I type this, driving 6-1/2 hours to Virginia to pick up her new baby Parrotlet from a breeder. Therefore, she needed me to drive to Aiken to look after mom and her menagerie of critters for the day. Daisy and I left my home in Charleston at 4:00 a.m., arrived in Aiken at 6:20, and Peggy left around 8:00. I'll most likely be spending the night here, and most of the day alternating between studying and beading when I'm not looking after mom.
It's been raining, thundering and lightening since I arrived, but that's just fine with me. If it were a beautiful sunny day out I'd find it hard to concentrate on studying. LOL
Computer issue update
I did finally gain access to the information on the corrupt hard drive and was able to transfer all the important stuff to the new hard drive. It took me all day, but it was worth it. Yeah for me!
Lunar eclipse pictures
Ed and I were outside during most of the eclipse on 2-20-08. I had my Nikon set up on a tripod, but those are on 35 mm film and yet to be developed, so I've included a few photos below that I took with my old digital camera, in order of occurrence...
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Update on computer woes
CHKDSK didn't find anything. I've now got a virus scan running on the corrupt drive via a good hard drive. That should give me at least an hour of time to study while I wait.
I think I'll have lunch first. LOL!
I think I'll have lunch first. LOL!
Computer woes...
A few days ago Ed's hard drive went bad. I managed to get it to boot into Windows long enough for him to get some work files and photos off of it, but now it's caught in an endless reboot loop and never quite makes it to the Windows screen. Yes, I tried booting from the Windows CD. Right now I'm having CHKDSK do a fix and we'll see if that resolves the problem.
As I type this CHKDSK has been running for about 40 minutes and is only up to 60% complete. UGH! If this doesn't do the trick we're going to have to give the hard drive to Ed's techie friend to recover what files he can off the thing.
I definetly have a love-hate relationship with computers.
When all this computer stuff is over I'll be studying today for my medical coding/billing/health insurance specialst courses.
As I type this CHKDSK has been running for about 40 minutes and is only up to 60% complete. UGH! If this doesn't do the trick we're going to have to give the hard drive to Ed's techie friend to recover what files he can off the thing.
I definetly have a love-hate relationship with computers.
When all this computer stuff is over I'll be studying today for my medical coding/billing/health insurance specialst courses.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Running like a mad-woman
Ever have one of those days where you only have a few things that you HAVE to do, and decide to take your time about doing it, when suddenly something happens and now you have to rush because those few things turned into MANY things? That's my day today. So, I don't have time to blog what I wanted to blog, but after all "tomorrow is another day".
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