Being a little paranoid after going through a tornado (I can't imagine why anyone would be paranoid after going through a natural disaster) I spent a sleepless night on Saturday. The motorhome was rocking back and forth and it wasn't a pleasant, calming rocking! Once I went to bed I laid there thinking that I wished we were either in the house or at least in the RV garage in the motorhome! I slept for a few hours and woke up again and again when there were some particularly strong gusts! You could hear the rain coming sideways! Each time I got up and looked out the windows, you couldn't see a thing...it was VERY dark outside. Finally around 4:30 am I could see! Couldn't see anything except the trees blowing and some sand blowing (from the sand pile we have for concrete/brick work), but at least I could see outside!! Once we got up and got around, we surveyed the yards. Porta Potty in both our yard and our neighbors 2 houses over were upset (thankfully they are "contained" even when on their sides!), a few pots with plants were blown about and an empty container had blown into the neighbors!
Once you left our neighborhood...things weren't so great! In my mom's neighborhood, several trees had fallen. The ground is so moist from the rain that we've had over the summer (very unusual we've been told) that the strong winds just took them with it! One of her neighbors had a tree fall on their car, another had a tree on the roof (no damage visable), and yet another had a tree land on their deck (again, no damage). Several more of her neighbors were lucky in that the trees that fell didn't hit a thing. Just caused an inconveniece!! A few days later Don and I were driving through Greers Ferry and noticed quite a few more trees that had been downed by the wind! We don't have that many trees left, but I guess we were lucky anyway! :-) Later in the day the only thing we had was bright blue skies with fluffy white clouds!
I've been having fun with a couple of hummingbird feeders! One on the window of the motorhome and another on the window of the house! There have been a dozen hummingbirds feeding there! Man those guys can go through a LOT of sugar water! They are pretty gutsy things! I'll open up the window to refill the feeder and they'll be buzzing outside just waiting for me to put it back together! It's fun to watch them flit back and forth, buzz each other and fill their tummies! Someone told Don that you had to stop feeding them otherwise they wouldn't head south and would die. I checked out the Official US Hummingbird site and they said that isn't the case! You might even be feeding a hummer that's in route south! They've also been known to leave while the feeder is still constantly being filled! That was good to know because I wouldn't want to be responsbile for keeping them longer than they should stay or killing them if they didn't leave!
Finally, I've included one of the many reasons we love living on a lake! We've had some beautiful sunsets and look forward to seeing many, many more from the comforts of our deck! We hope that to be within 60 days! Did you read that right? SIXTY DAYS! Yeah! :-)
Being a little paranoid after going through a tornado (I can't imagine why anyone would be paranoid after going through a natural disaster) I spent a sleepless night on Saturday. The motorhome was rocking back and forth and it wasn't a pleasant, calming rocking! Once I went to bed I laid there thinking that I wished we were either in the house or at least in the RV garage in the motorhome! I slept for a few hours and woke up again and again when there were some particularly strong gusts! You could hear the rain coming sideways! Each time I got up and looked out the windows, you couldn't see a thing...it was VERY dark outside. Finally around 4:30 am I could see! Couldn't see anything except the trees blowing and some sand blowing (from the sand pile we have for concrete/brick work), but at least I could see outside!! Once we got up and got around, we surveyed the yards. Porta Potty in both our yard and our neighbors 2 houses over were upset (thankfully they are "contained" even when on their sides!), a few pots with plants were blown about and an empty container had blown into the neighbors!
Once you left our neighborhood...things weren't so great! In my mom's neighborhood, several trees had fallen. The ground is so moist from the rain that we've had over the summer (very unusual we've been told) that the strong winds just took them with it! One of her neighbors had a tree fall on their car, another had a tree on the roof (no damage visable), and yet another had a tree land on their deck (again, no damage). Several more of her neighbors were lucky in that the trees that fell didn't hit a thing. Just caused an inconveniece!! A few days later Don and I were driving through Greers Ferry and noticed quite a few more trees that had been downed by the wind! We don't have that many trees left, but I guess we were lucky anyway! :-) Later in the day the only thing we had was bright blue skies with fluffy white clouds!
I've been having fun with a couple of hummingbird feeders! One on the window of the motorhome and another on the window of the house! There have been a dozen hummingbirds feeding there! Man those guys can go through a LOT of sugar water! They are pretty gutsy things! I'll open up the window to refill the feeder and they'll be buzzing outside just waiting for me to put it back together! It's fun to watch them flit back and forth, buzz each other and fill their tummies! Someone told Don that you had to stop feeding them otherwise they wouldn't head south and would die. I checked out the Official US Hummingbird site and they said that isn't the case! You might even be feeding a hummer that's in route south! They've also been known to leave while the feeder is still constantly being filled! That was good to know because I wouldn't want to be responsbile for keeping them longer than they should stay or killing them if they didn't leave!
Finally, I've included one of the many reasons we love living on a lake! We've had some beautiful sunsets and look forward to seeing many, many more from the comforts of our deck! We hope that to be within 60 days! Did you read that right? SIXTY DAYS! Yeah! :-)
