Morning madness

 

How is everyone this new day?  Here?  it is raining, nicely... a few lightning flashes and occasional bouts of thunder but I love this weather as any of you who have been reading my journal knows this about me   It leaves me with a feeling of contentment & relaxation.  The other night we had a bad thunderstorm roll through this area, woke both Cindy and I up at about 1:25 a.m. it hailed like you would not believe, of course I had to go outside and stand under the carport and watch the hail fall and see the lightning flash and hear the thunder boom.  Some of the hail balls were about a inch wide, if there were any bigger than that I didn't see them.  We did worry about the hail damaging Cindy's truck or because of the way the wind was blowing and the hail was falling, that it would crack one of the windows in front of the house ~ but ~ nothing happened like that   then of course, it took forever for us to fall back asleep, but we did.  We were both a little tired the next day but it was ok.  Then, this past Saturday morning on the way to work it started to snow, it was fantastic!  It was just flurries, but it lasted about 2 hours total I think, everyone at work was so excited about it, the customers were also.  The conditions were just right for it to happen and it did.  I enjoyed it immensely.

We have a huge Wisteria plant in our front yard in between a huge oak tree and a huge pine tree, it's like the tree's shelter it, (there are a lot of wild Wisteria plants in this area as well as most of the homes in this area have them in their yards) they were all blooming in a riot of color - love that soft bluish lavender that they are.  They always did remind me of bunches of grapes hanging from the stems.  The Dogwood tree's were also blooming - white ones and pink ones.  Dogwood's were my great grandmother's favorite flower.  We also have Iris's planted in the front of the house (which are blooming) and a old rose bush that was planted by the former owners that isblooming.  It's just beautiful 

Oh, the ranches and farms that are all out where we live?  there are baby calves and baby horses all over the place... it's really neat.

 

Cindy and I had a nice quiet evening last night- I cooked dinner, Salisbury Steaks w/ gravy, made from scratch macaroni and cheese, Italian Style Green Beans and Cracklin' Cornbread.  It was very good.  Then we watch a little TV and played with the puppies, then went to bed.  We were both pretty tired.  Got up this morning and fixed Cindy's breakfast and sent her on her way to work with love and kisses & telling her to be careful driving in the rain.

 

Enough for now...Wind to thy wings...