Well, yesterday was an adventure. My region got one storm after another. My poor chocolate lab is horribly afraid of storms and he shook all day. I tried to keep him sedated with his 'doggie xanax' inside a 'magic weiner' and it sort of worked.

My chickens wandered onto the neighbors field in full view and grabbing range of Mrs. Hawk and her offspring, and then the lightening started, and the tornado warnings started....cripes! My trusty Subaru Forester got me to the coop and scared in the chickens except for Lars who defended his flock against my car, and Anders the nutsy rooster who hid on the other side of the coop and looked all frazled...funny he is the one who picks on the babies and chases all the women.....We did later have to make a mad dash between lightning to shut the coop door. I vow to keep them shut up today as a repeat is predicted. The area of their coop and run looks like a rice paddy.

Then after my Subaru round up, my power went out. My daughter, who works for a power company called and told me to call in my outage.....I balked, but then decided to do what she said....with one mistake....I asked dear son in law to do it. He called and listened to the first few lines. "Thank you for calling____Engeries. As of 7:15pm on July 22 we are experiencing widespread power outages......" Problem is this is where he hung up......sooo, four hours later, freezer contents starting to thaw, it's midnight, I can't warm a baby bottle, flush a toilet or run a fan in the heat.

Hubby goes and trips the breaker just to make sure it isn't just us......hmmm....nothing. Hubby decides to call the outage report line.........Hubby hears the same prelude on the phone......'Thank you for calling_____Energies.......except HE doesn't hang up, he listens. The message goes onto state the counties with outages of which OURs is NOT one. So he goes to report the outage, and WE are the FIRST ones to report it.....good thing we sat on our tusches for 4 hours! It took 8 hours to get power back on and 4 of them were wasted. I'm glad I won't be in the car at 5am when hubby takes SIL to work..........

At 4am, the lights went back on. Well, the fur was flying last night....Hubby muttered under his breath until morning. I think he now has a concept of what I am dealing with.

Any one EAST of me, this is coming your way....and more is coming my way today......fun in the heartland. Do call your power company!

BTW, this weather is not good for neuropathy. It is hard to find pain pills by flashlight.