Turbulent Thursday

Thursday started out as a pretty normal day, the only difference was that we left the house about 0930 to go to Zander's pre-school Christmas program. It did not start until 1015, but we had had a lot of rain during the night and I did not know what we would run into.

As we were going there and stopped at a traffic light the cars in the right turning lane were about axle deep in water. I even remarked to Kathleen about the puddles having their own waves. I almost wish that I had brought my fishing gear!

At another intersection, the water from the corner reached to the center of a four-lane road. It was probably several inches deep at the curb and only about a quarter inch at the center. I felt more as if I should have been in a canoe or a kayak going down the street.

Then once we got off the main roads and onto Foster Road, the water in the ditches alongside the road looked more like creeks, the water was really running fast and in several places, it was crossing the roadway. I told Kathleen that I thought that on the way home we would take a different road.

Zander's Program was really good and Zander did very well. While they had their "party" afterwards Kathleen and I held Hayden so that Alyssa could do what she needed to do. When given the choice between a banana or a cookie Hayden said cookie, so it looks like he has developed somewhat of a sweet tooth.

After everything was over Kathleen and I did go home a different way, I needed to stop at Bi-mart and pickup a wiper blade for the back window of Kathleen's SUV. While there we did some shopping and then we stopped by Lowe's to pick up a couple items to redirect the heating vent in Kathleen's craft room.

There was a Fred Meyer just down the road from the Lowe's so we stopped there, as Kathleen needed to pick up a few items for an appetizer that she is bringing to our Sunday School class progressive dinner.

While we were there, she found a slow cooker that she liked better than the one we just bought at Bi-mart, so we bought that one and would stop by the Bi-Mart near out home and return the one we bought at the other Bi-Mart.

By this time, it was after 1600 and my stomach felt like it was ready to start eating itself. I had breakfast earlier in the morning but I had not had anything other than a small cookie that got Hayden started on them. So Kathleen reheated the scalloped potatoes and ham from last night.

After finishing dinner, I went to sit at my computer to do my blog, as I was heading to a Missions meeting at 1900 and would be late coming home. As I was opening the web page, the lights flickered and then turned brown, so I decided that I had better shut the computer down so that in case the power did go off it would not damage the computer.

I did get home late from the meeting and Kathleen said that the power did go off briefly a couple times, so I am glad that I did turn the computer off. Well that was my day yesterday. The wind has died down this morning and from the looks of the yard and driveway, I think I will be picking up branches for a while.

It could be a lot worse, there are several homes that have had trees fall through their homes and while we did have some branches hit the roof, they were an inch or less in diameter and did not do any damage that I can see now.

Well, I think that I will make breakfast now and get started on my day.