Oh yeah......tonight about an hour ago I thought that all of this remodeling project might just be for nothing!!!! The sirens were going off every few minutes, the TV told us to take cover,....that a tornado was just west of us and headed for F'town!!!! Well, we gather together our flashlight, my trusty lappie(will lots of files and records on the hard drive), my cell phone, and we moved into the laundry room. We do not have a basement, BUT....we do have a "trap door" in the laundry room which would allow us to go down into the crawl space beneath the house.....amongst the spiders and other creepy crawly things. I got some plastic from my the floor where I had been painting and laid it on the ground beneath the opening.......and, whoever built the house put a light socket and switch underneath the house, soooooo, turned it on, put a little step stool down there so the 1st Lady wouldn't have to jump/lower herself into the hole, and we sat around the opening.
Went outside.....and Oh My God......you could hear the "train roaring" west of us. It was as still as could be here on the hill above the majority of the community.....not a breath of air(75 degrees) was moving. The sirens continued to sound....and then the horrendous air to ground lightening began to hit all around us. I kept hearing the roaring of the "whatever"....tornado???.....to the west and northwest of us. A bit of hail came down, but there wasn't much at all.....just enough to hear it falling. Some HUGE drops of rain....just a few.....and then quiet.
I had turned off the tv, unplugged it from the electricity AND the cable, and unhooked the cable internet. We ALWAYS have soooooooo much lightening up here.....we have lost two televisions and numerous phones from strikes close by. Soooo.....dumb old people that we are.....we didn't have a battery powered radio.....so we sat and waited to jump into the hole beneath the house.
Finally.....we heard the "all clear" sirens.....and by that time I had looked outside....the lightening had stopped.....and THERE was the full moon and stars above us!!! YEA.....it missed us!!!! All of the neighborhood was outside and enjoying the fact that we dodged the bullet this time.
We have had several tonadoes, within a mile or two as the crow flies, in the past 2-3 years so I thought this time might be OUR time. I kept imaging my HowserHouse on wheels taking to the air in flight rather than rolling down the highways and byways!!!! AND.....most of our clothes and breakables are currently stored inside while the remodeling continues.......!!!
AND...to the remodeling: We began painting with the primer at 8:30 this morning......painted all morning and into the early afternoon. Then we took a break, went to the local lumber company, and bought the paint for the family/tv room. Went by one of the local eateries and had a sandwich.....returned home, changed back into the paint clothes, and painted again until 5:30pm. EVERYTHING is painted, except the ceiling in the bedroom which was not demolished during the initial stages of the remodeling process......so all I want to do is to give it one coat of primer. We STILL have to select the color for the walls in the bedroom and the bath......more decisions to be made.
The individual we hired to custom build our bathroom vanity dropped by to show us the stain he had put together to match the color I wanted......a dark chocolate/espresso color. And....it looks good!! This dark color is REALLY in style right now with furniture, cabinets, and vanities. Even saw one on HGTV before the storm arrived...... I love this color.....very dramatic!
A BUSY, BUSY day......and an evening with a half hour of some nervous twitters and jitters.......but, as always,
LIFE IS GREAT!!!!!......and I hope it is for all of you, also!!!!!!
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