Stormyyy Weatherrr,,,

All nite long,,and i was up til after 3AM.  Don't know what i'm going to do about going to sleep at a reasonable time, but this has to change!  I was up reading, about 1 when my son called, thot he was hearing a tornado, but i looked on several radars and there wasn't one.  Don't know what the roaring was, that he was hearing.  Just the high winds up high i guess.  I didn't hear it here, and he was about 2 miles away.  The winds off those storms was icy.  Lots of hail in them, even tho we didn't get any here.  Showing we got a little over 2", and a few miles East, it was double that.  My power never even went off.  Lots of close lightening, roaring, continuous.  I found one of the local weather stations that showed the storm chaser videos,,sooo cool.  And there were lots of em around here,,,lololol,,,like, 7 or so, at the edge of these things.

 Just heard of one person, not the storm chasers, getting half way washed off a low water crossing and that was this morning.  He got out ok.  The deputies were out most of the nite checking those out, getting barriers put out.  Heard that a trailer house was engulfed, out a few miles, but don't think anyone lived there, then later, a house in Kingsland.

One nite a few years ago, i woke up with this huge cold wet spot on my pillow and bed.  Now, what would you think?  I thot,,OMG, i'm hemorrhaging.  Got the lite on, and it was this huge water leak right over my head, looking like the ceiling was about to fall, so bulged out.  It was a smaller spot down at my feet, too.  Well, hells bells, now i  have to get up, do something with this soaking bed in the middle of the nite.  I don't have an extra bed, and i sure didn't want to try the couch, soooooo,,,i push, shove, and finally get the bed out from under those spots, and get way on the other side and go back to sleep.  Took all the next day to get that dried out, even stripping off all the bedding.  The ceiling shrunk back and didn't fall thru, and ASAP, there was a new roof put on!  My bro B does that kind of thing, and wasn't booked up.  When he got up there and looked he did say that it was probably just some loose nails, and might,,, be ok.  NOOO WAY!,,,lololol.  I had already collected the money for a new roof, after a hail storm, about a year earlier, so,,,that's what i got.  It did go thru my mind, tho, during the nite last nite.

I called Jude for hours, starting before the storms.  Then every once in a while, i would try again.  Thot, well, he was in a dry place and wouldn't come out.  HA,,he sure was.  Hiding under my bed! lolololol.  When i went to bed about 10:30, here he came out.  Then, all nite, when i was up and down, he stuck to me like glue.  Never saw him do this.  Maybe he forgot how storms sound, cause he sure was worried.  When i got up about 8;30 he wanted out, but, the sun was out by then.

Ok,,like DD, enough about nothing,,yall tc, and

HAGD

He'sssss Backkkk

I have noooo idea where that cat went!  I drove around a few blocks and not a sign.  I think he was hiding from another cat, after what happened last nite.  I was going to keep him in, but he wanted out, sooo, out he went.  Way later, about 1AM, yep, still awake,,i heard growling.  Sure enough, there was another cat out there that ran off when i opened the door.  Got him back in, and he still wouldn't stay so in a while he went out and i went to bed,,,again.  He was there this morning so nothing happened.  I don't see but 1 or 2 wild cats around now.

I watched that Frozen Planet last nite, and was just amazed.  Need to see that in the summer,,lol.  It was filmed in the Arctic, and Antarctica.  Don't know which was worse, the N or the S.  That's why i love it here, can't take the cold.  Now i'm getting to where i can't take the heat either,,hahahaha.

The wind has been blowing hard all morning out of the S.  Still forecasting storms later.  Willy B Wright? lololol,,That was the name of the armadillo picture in the paper showing the forecast.  Not there now, and i don't know when they quit using it.

When i was at HEB a few days ago, they didn't have plain ol honey graham crackers. The stock man showed me a new box and told me they were just a little smaller,,well, YEAH,,like an inch square!  I'm very tempted to take them back!  Hate to be done that way.  I guess they're gonna get like the Walmart in Marble Falls, just don't stay stocked on everyday stuff.  Didn't have a few other things either.  And then,,i forgot to use the few coupons in my pocket,,,lollololol.  Do that all the time.

Gotta get milk and go to the library today, no matter what.  Out of the first, and gonna be out of the second before long.   Guess i could get dressed and do it now.  Think i will, so yall tc, and

HAGD

Jude's Missing

Don't know what to think, Jude hasn't shown up today.  He's always waiting by the door when i get up, or once in a while, comes running when i go out for the paper.  Maybe he has a gopher treed, or hiding from something.  He doesn't go wandering off, and he's really a scaredy cat.  Here where i live is a safe place or i wouldn't be letting him out.  It's rare a car even goes down the one street in the front.  The street to the side is a dead end, so just the neighbors go there.

I didn't do anything yesterday, too darned tired.  Watched 2 movies last nite, went to bed at 11, and SLEPT!  First time since the time changed.

With DD missing for 2 days, thot i was gonna have to go hunting him,,,lol.  We all kinda keep up with each other, and when one posts every day, or says he won't, and then comes up missing,,we take it serious.  SOOOO DD,,was so relieved today, to see your post.

And BB, if you go out in that "bubba boat",,,plzzzz wear your life jacket.  Late yesterday, a kayak turned over with 3 men in it, 2 had them on, 1 didn't.  They found his body about 9 last nite.  And they were close to shore.  This was in Lake Buchanan.

Nothing to say, nothing going on,,but, i will let you know about Jude.

Yall tc, and

HAGD

Went off and got back home about 4:30 and Jude's waiting on the porch, nothing wrong,,he's fine,  but he did get a good talk from me.

Bluebonnet Trail

 

Had to get the next 2, too, and this is just a start on the yellow that’s coming.

the next 2 aren’t bluebonnets, but the pasture was lilac.

 

Back to the bluebonnets.

These are just a small portion that I could get.  Hwy 71 is a 2 lane, and nowhere to stop safely, tons of traffic too, so I pulled over whenever I   could.  Then after turning off on a more narrow 2 lane county road, was still just as bad.   It’s just breath taking, and as long as I’ve lived here, I’m still that way when the countryside is full of flowers.  They’re just now getting started.

This county is the only one that has this HUGE display.  It’s like, you cross that county line, bam, they’re gone.  I would swear, that on the Ellen DeGeneres show, there was a pic of this as her background.  Even has the oak trees too.

Got my HEB trip done, and got home and put   away.  Then, didn’t get to sleep til after 3 last nite, so,,,,NOTHING today!  Here it is, almost 1 and I’ve just eaten breakfast.  I don’t remember, lol, it ever being this bad.  I wanted to take my son and his gf out to eat later, so,, maybe.  They called last nite, had been up river on a picnic, and here came a storm out of nowhere.  They wanted to know if there was hail in it, so I looked and no,,,wasn’t, but told them to head back right then and they would beat it to town.  HA!! They went the OTHER way!  lmaooo,,,storm chasers!  I guess I taught them well.  Always loved storms too. 

Time to get my dishes done,, gonna be a nap for sure.  So yall tc, and

HAGD

Let's Skip a Day

Or 2,  still messed up with the time.  Changed my mind and didn't go grocery shopping yesterday, just made a stop here and got the coffee.  It was even on sale!  Of course, they try to fool you with the size of the cans, but,,,not me, lol, i check that kind of stuff.  But i got a 23 oz one, and that will do until i get to Kingsland.  Now i don't have to hurry to go.  Some time over the week end will work.

Soo yall tc, and

HAGD

WHY WHY WHY

HATE this time change!  Can't get to sleep at nite, sleep way too long in the mornings.  Don't know why they keep doing it, have read there's no reason any more, so WHY???
No sleep, no energy, nothing getting done.  Didn't even walk yesterday,  just can't when i'm so tired.  Am i the only one this way?  Gosh i hope not.

Thot about going up to visit G, but,,,grrrrrrr,,,almost 1PM now.  Would take about an hour to get there.  Guess i'll just sit around and go to HEB later.  Later, cause that way, i can eat at that good mexican food place again.  lololol.

When i go to Kingsland later, i'll go on hwy 71, have heard the bluebonnets are great.  Will get pics.

Gosh, a shooting at a court house in Beaumont!  Just saw that on the news.

Short today, didn't even wanna do a post, so yall tc, and

HAGD

Geeezzzz,,,What to Say?

I keep seeing a lot of others like me, thinking their blogs are boring.  In fact, i guess all i keep up with, are saying that now.  Just a phase?  I don't remember, (statins) being so out of things to say, before.  Now i'm being forced to write about having nothing to write about,,hahahahaha.

Since taking off the word verification i AM getting lots more spam in my email.. is this just a coincidence, or,,,a fact of ,,blogging?  I put my settings on Google to the private one and i've noticed that i don't see things pop up everywhere i go, about where i've been.

DDs got  pics of his swamp on there today.  Love that place, and kinda wonder why he would ever go anywhere else... lololol.

It's been so hard to make myself walk lately.  I do, but it sure is hard.  I think maybe it's the lack of sleep, like, last nite, i didn't go to sleep til after 2 AM, then i was up a couple of times, so thirsty i had to have a drink, which i keep a bottle of water in the bathroom.  Tried keeping it by the bed, but then, would have to get up any way, to pee, even tho that's not the reason i wake up.  On the walks, i'm having to sit down more along the way.  Darn time change!  Shouldn't even affect me.  Sooo tired.

Austin is having the SXSW stuff going on now.  Zillions of people are there, techs, films, music.  And i've been told, the bluebonnets are out in force on some highways.
After they bloom and start fading out, they have their seed pods all over them.. They dry out and get to the point where they literally, explode.  They sling seeds out to maybe 20 feet.  So if you gather up pods, keep them in paper bags,,,lol.  And if you're on the side of the highway, watch for those rattlesnakes!   Those seeds can lay there for years, and when the right weather conditions happen, they will grow.  Sometimes it can be 10 years or so, between the whole countryside blooming out.  I think this year is one of those, will get pics.

We set the high temp yesterday, in the nation!  88*.  Knew it was too darn hot.

Think i'll take a nap,,,yall tc, and

HAGD