KABOOM and the Bedroom lit up

KABOOM and the bedroom lit up. And it's NOT what you think - get your minds out of the gutter, People!

I awoke with quite a start before sunrise this morning as the entire bedroom lit up from a flash of lightening and an immediate BOOM, which indicated that the lightening had struck extremely close. The biggest issue with this was that Hercules (white kitty) was sleeping on my feet, which were uncovered by the way. He flew straight up in the air, which must have been at least three feet, then down again and like a cartoon cat made running motions with his feet. Unfortunately his claws were out, and I now have three very deep, long scratches on my leg.

On top of that, we’re dog sitting for the next six days, and Grand Dog Daisy hates thunderstorms. So the lightening and thunder precipitated a lot of whining and unrest. Poor thing. Beau on the other hand, sleeps right through everything. Typical man, he’s just like Ole. You could blow a stick of dynamite under the bed and neither Ole nor Beau would wake up. And that’s no lie!!

So Daisy was trying to comfort me with my cat scratches and I was trying to comfort her from being unnerved by the thunder.

Lovely Daughter and The New Man flew out to Reno this morning and won’t be back until next Thursday, so Daisy and Beau will live here on a full-time basis. Not that they don’t almost do that now – at this point they only sleep at Lovely Daughter’s house. Oh, well, what’s a bit more dog hair (snarky comment).

Don’t get me wrong – I’m an animal lover and have been all my life. I’ve got the softest heart of anyone in the world when it comes to animals whether domesticated or wild. But at this point in my life I’m just so tired of cleaning up all the hair I don’t even know where to begin telling you about it, so I won’t. Rosie the Rhoomba makes my life SO much easier, BUT . . . . I can’t tell you how nice it was to set Rosie off the other day, head for the grocery store, and have a freshly vacuumed carpet when I returned. And I need to clarify – it isn’t just the hair, but also the sand and dirt that gets dragged in. Oh, well, enough complaining. I love them dearly and will miss them dearly if Lovely Daughter has to move from this location due to County ordinances. We’ll miss her too – just thought I should stick that in there – it isn’t JUST the doggers we’ll miss.

But I won’t miss getting cat scratches on my bare leg at night, believe me. But I will miss Simon, my senior citizen. He’s such a gentle old duffer. All he wants to do at this point in his life is sleep and be close to someone.

So anyway, where was I before I digressed? Oh, well, it really doesn’t matter. New thought: (Remember, these are ramblings of an Old Woman.)

I’m not going into the Diaryland issue – that’s been covered enough already. I’ve made my opinions known by jumping ship and moving here. I really can’t express to those of you who are still on Diaryland how simple this site is to operate. Give it a try, okay?

Let’s see – what’s happened since I last made an entry here. Hmmm. Okay. Last night – Friday night – karaoke at the Local Watering Hole. We didn’t stay long because Ole volunteered to Rise and Shine at 4 a.m. this morning to take Lovely Daughter and the New Man to the airport to catch their VERY early morning flight to Reno. He’s such a dear, isn’t he? The only problem is he can’t hear the alarm clock when his hearing aides are out, so I had to wake up anyway just to keep poking him to get him out of bed at that hour. But he got them there on time for a 5:30 a.m. flight (remember we’re not at the edge of the world, but you can see it from here). I just spoke with Lovely Daughter and she said they had a terrible flight – lots of thunderstorms and the plane they were supposed to connect with in Denver had been struck by lightening in the air, so the mechanics were giving it a good go-over. As I told her, better on the ground than having trouble in the air, ya’ think? But as a result they were several hours late getting into Reno. But they are there, on the ground, safe and sound and enjoying themselves. Already lost money on the Kentucky Derby, but oh, well, you can’t take it with you, can ya’?

So Ole and I and the two grand doggers spent the morning being lazy after having to break up our night’s sleep. Stayed in bed and watched a movie or two, ETC. Finally got into gear about noon and started prepping food for tomorrow.

You see, tomorrow is our 40th wedding anniversary!! Can you believe I’ve put up with him (and vice versa – snicker) for that long???? We opted not to have a BIG party like so many people do for that milestone, and just invited some friends over for supper. If it’s not raining we’ll grille on the deck. I’ve got everything else ready, so it’s just a matter of marinating the chicken and ta-dah – I’m done!

If I have time tomorrow I’ll try to post some pictures of the EVENT that took place 40 years ago. Jeez, that sounds like it was the Dark Ages, or something – 40 years ago. Well, I guess it actually was the Dark Ages back then. Lots of reminiscing to do tomorrow. Oh, the stories I can tell – unfortunately most of them are PRIVATE – only for Ole and me – snicker.

Well, enough for tonight. Hopefully we won’t have anymore lightening strikes on top of us like last night.

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