Sorry for the unintentional blog hiatus. What was supposed to be nothing more than a few scattered showers turned into a full-blown hurricane that would not move. We had about five days of sideways rain that resulted in loss of beach, an indefinite delay on all imports, and a very leaky ceiling (at one point I had EIGHT vessels collecting water scattered throughout the house). Amazingly we only lost power for a few hours through it all. I left the house three, count them, three times from Monday until Saturday – once to get groceries, once to go out to dinner, and once to use the school’s bathroom (that was during the power outage, and I don’t want to talk about it). Two good things came from the storm, though: A) We finally had reason to use the huge plastic poncho we bought over a year ago, and B) It sort of felt like fall. I had to wear layers to bed at night!! But now it’s passed and everything is back to the usual – hot, hot, hot.
Pictures! Our lovely beach, which used to look like this:
now looks like this:
because of this:
One other exciting thing: There was an earthquake! I think. I’m more certain of it this time than the last time, which just ended up being Penny chewing her leg in the middle of the night. I’m pretty sure I felt shaking, and there definitely wasn’t an itchy dog at the foot of my bed this time, and when I checked the seismic activity it turned out there had been a small quake near Puerto Rico that same morning. So.
I was wondering why we seem to have a small earthquake every night here in Idaho. Thanks for solving the mystery for me!
ReplyDeleteI thought Penny got kicked out of your bed after that time she threw up in it.
ReplyDeleteha. did i miss the dog earthquake post? dang it.
ReplyDeleteThat poor beach.
ReplyDeletei want to see a picture of you in a poncho
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