A tornado watch is in effect until 9pm tonight and maybe another watch tomorrow...a severe thunderstorm is also a watch from today through tomorrow..
bletch...
checked all the local tv stations... nothing live though all had "crawls".... you know the lines at the bottom with the news/alerts etc from the weather channel
By 6 pm all the stations showed the storms moving more northerly almost to the Iowa border...looks like all my worry has been for naught.
We have had several days of hot weather with night time thunderstorms..... they have not down much damage just leaves and branches...and lots of water! Though I did see a whole tree uprooted on our way to the grocery store this morning!!
I have another online bear show this weekend so have been busy getting things posted with Pay Pal buttons!! Bob and I have been discussing "retirement" with two more shows (Nov. and Dec.) and then calling it "QUITS". Part of our discussion has been on what I will do next...
We ( the family) has finally managed to schedule a celebration dinner for our grand daughter's college graduation! She is excited and so is everyone else! It will be Friday night! Fingers crossed that we can take pictures!!
BTW ... it is currently 89F and the a/c is going like mad!
Yesterday seemed fine.. the posted time for thunderstorms had past...Had dinner at Moochoos with our daughter , watched a little tv and went to bed as usual....
I was sleeping when Bob woke me to say the sirens had gone off. This was about 2 am. Got things together and made our way down to the basement. Bob found chairs... turned on the cell phones to watch radar pictures and there had been a possible tornado in KC... Sirens still wailing. Our younger daughter on the other side of Blue Springs had also received text messages.
Sirens off .. tornado warning cancelled. Back to bed...
The this morning I read on the BS Facebook group the southern BS ... no warning. Also Oak Grove ( other daughter) didn't either.
What a night... but the day was fine! We did spend the day listening to the roofers taking off an old shake roof and putting on a new one!
Luckily not the super loud version of thunder and no lightening that I noticed.
We didn't do much this morning. Bob had prescriptions to pick up so we did a jaunt around town to see what's new. All the dine-in restaurants' parking lots were full!
Our older daughter has a craving for Mexican so we will head out to MooChoo's this evening!
I finished and photographed my latest bear and put it "up" for the next online show in two weeks...then decided to start making some Christmasy ornaments for the November show. This will declutter some of the Christmas accessories/supplies...a definite plus..
Dinner was good... Bob and our daughter spent a lot of time talking about using AI , Claud (?) and other similar things. Not really my thing but our daughter spends a lot of time writing grants proposals and AI etc. is helpful.
More severe weather may be in the late evening...
Our younger daughter has retired from teaching ( with a pension) . She has been applying for jobs which would give her medical benefits and yesterday she had an interview! The medical benefits are the important thing.. her pension is enough financially.
Yesterday she had an interview...She stopped by on her way home to fill us in on all the details! Sounded like the interview went well.
The craft quilting group met here in the evening and what with Carolyn's interview and the possibility of one of the other members going on strike ... lots of talking went on!! And munching...
This morning our daughter called to say she's been offered the job! Hooray!! It has lots of benefits!!
She called just after I got home from having my hair cut...
Bob had gone to the library while I got my hair cut and came home with a new Ann Cleeves for me and a Sharpe military one for himself. So we read and I worked on a bear...Dinner was leftovers from the quilting craft meeting!
Both Bob and I have been keeping ourselves busy with unimportant tasks... plus reading and bear making for me.. Bob working on his vintage radios and his XBox....
We did manage a visit to my podiatrist for the three monthly nails clipping yesterday and a stop on the way home at the grocery store... whee!
Even tv/streaming hasn't been great though we did enjoy a Shirley Maclaine movie... about 2017 ( Bob says) ... on Netflix and Hulu
Bob turned on the a/c last night but then the temperatures dropped! A huge band of rain and thunder showed up on the radar and that's just what we had all night... Evidently we will have more of this for the next day or so....
A little after 10 AM the electricity went out. Bob used his cell phone to report the outage and found the outage covered a large area... BUT about 20 minutes later it came back on. Just meant we had clocks to adjust!! Bob was glad .. he had a dental appointment and I bet it would have been cancelled with no electricity!!
forgot to publish yesterday...
