Because the weather will be different! I heard that said about Texas, but it's much more appropriate up here in NE OK! Today is a good example of that. It was cool when we headed out for church and it looked like it was going to be a sunny day. About 10 minutes after Sunday School started, which was about 30 minutes after we left home, I heard thunder. Then 45 minutes later when we went into the church itself, it was starting to rain. Then it poured. Loudly! And the power went out for a few minutes. Then by the time church was over, the rain had stopped and it was windy. Extremely windy. Then about 30 minutes later, it was sunny again.
We had a storm come through yesterday afternoon that was the same way. It was very windy and we got a lot of rain. We had a little hail, but I think that other parts of the area got bad hail from yesterday's storm.
Froggy emailed me because she'd heard that our specific area had lots of trees and limbs down from this morning. Not quite, but in Tulsa it was worse. Otter and I went to a cactus sale (a bust but more on that in a minute) in Tulsa, and there were lots and lots of limbs down. One main street was blocked because of a good sized tree that had come down. There were several people attacking it with chain saws. The area we were heading to is next door to a really neat park in Tulsa, which is filled with trees. The first thing we noticed was a huge tree, that had probably been there for decades if not longer, laying on it's side with the roots up. It wasn't alone, we saw a few others there. However, the resident squirrels seemed to be ok - they were begging for food as usual, then walking away when the saw that we didn't have any. Don't feel sorry for the squirrels, they don't miss any meals! Some of them are fat! And not because they are full of little squirrels waiting to be born, just fat.
We were heading to the cactus sale put on by the Tulsa cactus association. They have it twice a year, spring and fall. We have found some neat cactus there before. It's always on a weekend. We get there, find the building it's usually held in and walk in. Only to find people setting up for a wedding and no cactus in sight. I called the phone number I had for them, it turned out that the Tulsa Garden Center double booked for today and told the cactus association late yesterday afternoon that they were not going to be able to have the second day of their show. So they didn't even have time to let anyone on their mailing list know. So since we didn't get to buy cactus plants, we decided to walk around the park. Which is when we discovered the downed trees. We didn't spend too much time at the park, since it wasn't the original destination I didn't take my knee brace with me and I didn't want to risk aggravating my knee further. But it was a nice unscheduled visit.
We didn't make our annual spring visits to the park since there were still limbs everywhere due to December's ice storm. And the trees that came down or lost limbs this morning are probably also related to the ice storm. We will go back to the park soon, and this time we'll have peanuts so the squirrels aren't angry at us! Froggy - we want to take you there. But bring your walking stick.
The Youth Leader at church is back from his trip. He wasn't in church because he got back in the middle of the night last night. From Myanmar. His trip was planned before the storm that hit them so badly, but he was there during the main part of the recovery period and I can really see the hand of God in the timing. Next Sunday he'll be there and will have a presentation about his trip. Myanmar is an extremely closed country and it's not at all safe to evangalize there. But Wes is home safely, which is what we all were praying for.
Otter's decided to get serious about getting her learner's permit. She finally found her driver's license booklet after just about tearing her room apart, and she's out on the deck in her chair reading it. I'm going to call tomorrow and find out the actual details about her permit, I think it's a written test. Then we'll go from there and see about her actually learning to drive. I'm not sure if we can teach her or if she'll have to go to an approved driving school, it seems like she'll have to go to the actual school. However with her camp, Froggy's visit & Texas trip schedule, she might not actually go until later in the summer or even after school starts in August. But she'll still get driving lessons from me or Bill, once she gets the permit.
Oh, I got more of my neighbor's dirt yesterday and this morning! At this rate, I'll have a completely new yard very soon.
And now, back to my laundry!
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