| 8:11a |
Personal note; running late.....
I'm way behind this morning, and nothing has happened on its regular schedule. My little dog is horrified -- she's a fanatic about exact scheduling -- and I'm not all that happy myself; I hate getting even more behind than I already was. Our power went off in a storm last night, and didn't come back on until 7:30 a.m., which meant I wasn't at my computer at 7:00 as I usually am; our generator will run the coffeemaker [thank goodness!], but isn't a safe way to run the computers and their power backup units.
And then once it got light we discovered that the wind had torn up our big sycamore tree out front... lots of sizable limbs broken and hanging down ... and all of that mess had to be cut loose, and cut into manageable lengths, and stacked out of the way. I'm sorry about the damage to the tree, but very glad the wind just happened to be blowing straight out of the southwest, so that none of the big branches landed on our roof. We slept through the whole commotion -- one of the advantages of living in an underground house.
It was worse by far in many areas around us, and I know that there were people hurt at Octoberfest in Tulsa ... I hope all of you, and those you love, came through the storms safe and sound. |