Carolyn's library position

 Our daughter has started her new "job" at the Mid-Continent Library Raytown branch... She's filled out all the necessary paperwork... listened to all sorts of work requirement files and is eager to start working with the public....

requirements etc are very different from those for a teacher!!  LOL 

Bob and our s-i-l and grandson had a car problem to fix Monday. Evidently our grand son tried using his Father's car ( twice) to jump is friend's ...minor catastrophe ... Luckily it meant only a new battery and a trip to their trusted mechanic to make sure of that!!   

Sorting stuff...ie decluttering...did find stuff to use for this November's show! 

Dominic's birthday

Dominic's birthday celebration was a good one... good food and a surprisingly good cake from Price Chopper! Lots of laughter.. lots of talk and so on! 

 Here he is at one!! 

 

Weird one

This morning Bob and I headed off to my" appointment" for a fasting blood test ... it's actually a  first come first served setup. After waiting and waiting I was lucky to get a fantastic tech...One poke... three vials and off I went!

But the whole thing left me feeling off kilter all day.

We were due for some bad weather yesterday,,, but it didn't happen. Nothing happened today either. The temps did drop! Tomorrow is our grandson's 20th birthday... everyone is coming for dinner , cake and ice cream. I say dinner bur actually my daughter is making the main part  - shrimp or chicken enchiladas! Dominic requested the shrimp ones.

Feeling off kilter I didn't get much done! 

 

 

where to get a bear?

 I ( plus Bob as helper) used to travel to go to bear shows. We went  all over - Texas, Florida, NY, Iowa , Illinois and all over Missouri. But the shows close enough ( in Bob's desire to drive) no longer exist.

So show promoters have switched to online shows... my latest one closed this afternoon.  If you want to look at the sales page ( and there were some that did not sell) ... here is a link

glass dragon bears 

I have been slowly moving toward retirement and so have two shows left - November and December..

all this is in aid of saying that these shows are the only way ( now) to purchase one of my bears . I use PayPal and mail the bear to the purchaser . With all the added  rules etc for international stuff I only sell to those with US mailing addresses.

Aftermath

 Nothing happened to us.. hurrah... but both our daughters still do not have electricity.... and the one with two dogs that like to get out of the back yard ( strong wooden fence)  has a neighbor's tree breaking the fence!!

So Bob and our daughters will be at work this afternoon make a temporary fix!!

On the way to our daughter's Bob is going to stop at the PO to drop off bear boxes from the ongoing show. With "click and ship" I can do paid postage labels and Bob can just drop them off without the PO being manned.. ( it's Sunday!).

The fence  is fixed... ! Harper and Scout can't get out!!

another basement visit

 Sirens took off  again this evening.. tornado watches... tornado warnings... severe thunderstorm warnings..

So turned off the computers and headed down to the basement ... took our cell phones, a drink and set up chairs!

Sirens were going off at both our daughters houses.... they both lost electricity so ended up sitting in the dark. We did not though it looked like our neighbors did too.

Sirens off by 9.30 but the rain , thunder and lightening continued ... 

There was talk on Facebook that several tornadoes had touched down all around us... tomorrow will tell us for sure 

 

another night tonight and maybe tomorrow...

 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.