They could never say that life at our house is boring. In fact, it borders on the ridiculous quite often. Unfortunately for my children, I seem to have passed on the stupid things happen to Deanna rule.
Poor Jessalyn was working on the back patio and somehow slammed herself in the eye with the wooden end of the push broom and is now sporting a partial shiner. Only my child could do that.
Jacob was playing kick ball on Friday and hurt his ankle. He did not want them to lose the game and so he kept playing. He hurt it again. He continued to play and ended up colliding with another kid on top of 2nd base and hurt it again. They started to play tug o' war and he ended up twisting it in the wrong direction. We spent Friday afternoon in the ER with him. They don't think it's broken, but we have to wait and see. He still cannot put any weight on it, so he will probably have to get it xrayed again. Just what he needed. Forget that, just what I needed. Well, at least once it was someone else and not me getting a test for this stupid mystery illness that I have.
Bad storms are cropping up here, so I'll get off for now and check in again later.
Wow! Little did I know that when I signed off earlier in the post that things would get hectic around here. It looked like we might get a bad thunderstorm, but that's it. The weather radar was red, but then it just turned to yellow, so we were not too worried. Suddenly withing seconds the whole thing turned red, the tornado sirens starting going off and we had multiple tornados all over around here.
Will and I heard thumping and it was huge hail coming down all around us. The flag went from hanging limp on the pole to standing straight out and not moving at all just staying straight. Will was at one end of the house and I was at the other watching. We had our stuff ready in our tornado position, but somehow never made it there. It was all over that quickly.
Our house is fine. No damage. Although I did manage to save some of the hail in the freezer.
My mail route did not fair so well. I heard through the grape vine that a couple of my roads had been in a tornado. Will and I picked up Mom and Dad and went to investigate. If the roads were toast, I needed to know for work. Alternate plans have to be made. It was bad. Trees down on houses and cars, roofs blown off etc.
The hardest part for me though, is that my eagle nest has been destroyed. I have watched the eagles raise 4 families in that nest. Enjoyed seeing them every day as part of my daily routine and that is all done now. They had another baby this year and I don't know if the baby made it. It was not flying yet. I called the DNR and told them about it, so hopefully, someone will go out and check it out. I know they like to save them and rehabilitate them if they can.
I know that in the scheme of things, no lives were lost so it's all good, but I still feel like I am in mourning. Those birds were part of my life and now they hopefully will rebuild somewhere, but it probably will not be where I can watch the nest and see them daily. A part of my life that I enjoyed greatly is gone. I know, I know, life goes on, but sometimes things that happen are not what I would have chosen. Still, God in His grace continues to bless me each day with other great things. So I will head out today to see what the "new" plan is.
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