Goodbye (for now)

Well, we are off to Illinois to visit my family after being gone now for 4 years without a visit.   I don't think I will have a way to use the web, so I will take lots of pictures and I will be back Sunday night, so I will post on Monday, for now have a great rest of the week and I will be back soon!

Video

Here is a place to go to see the actual video that shows what the hurricane has done to upstate NY york these places are only an hour to a half hour away from us.  Part of our state highways are still closed today. You can go here http://mohawkvalley.ynn.com/content/hurricane_irene/ to view the video.

Hope you all have a great day.  We are fine up on our mountain also.  I feel pretty bad for all those folks that weren't so lucky.  For some reason the link above is not going through right so if you actually type it into your browser it will come up better or just type in hurricane irene and mohawk river.  Let me know in comments if it does not come up.

Just a little breezy!

I wasn't in an area where we could take pictures of flooding but some of our major highways that we travel are closed and our county is under emergency.    We went to get diesel fuel last night for the generator and as we got to the one exit that we get off of, was just closing the thruway past that exit.  We were able to get fuel and head home before the highway was completely closed.   Not hearing a lot about the flooding around us, lots said in the coastal areas of course but not inland!
We were out of power all day yesterday except for a couple of hours.  We did get our power back around nine last night.   We did get around 6 to 8 inches of rain.  

Rain

Well, it started raining last night and it hasn't stopped yet!   Not for sure how much we have gotten yet.  The storm is not over.  We didn't get too much wind where we are in the beginning but the winds have picked up and we did lose power for most of the mid morning and early afternoon!   We do have power at this moment, for how long, who knows.  I am just glad that we live further north west  than closer to the city and just less than an hour south east of us they are getting it pretty bad with the flooding and we are on flood warnings right now. I am taking pictures but not all that impressive at the home front.   I have pretty much stayed put inside the house  today.  Didn't take long this morning to get soaked when we went out to do the chores and I even had on the duster and the hat.   Will post all about it tomorrow.  The hurricane predictions where no where near as bad as they said it was going to be.

Storm

I had to add the horses into this post, its been awhile. As you can see the skies are not looking so great, and as you all know by tomorrow we will be into some nasty weather! We took the daughter to college yesterday and spent the rest of the day getting groceries and feed for the livestock. Today we will be getting things around the farm ready for the rain and the wind. Our area is looking for 60 + winds and above 5 inches of rain.

We have been watching the news and the track of the storm coming up the coast and keep wondering how bad we will be getting the storm. We are inland a ways but we are still close enough that we are going to get some of the bad stuff from this hurricane. The hubby keeps telling me every so often that we are going to get hammered and I keep saying I know dear, I know and of course you worry about the buildings and the livestock coming through this storm, I debate if I should leave the horses out and they can get into the run in shed or put them in the barn in the stalls where they will stay dry but if the winds get bad enough the hubby says that it doesn't matter where they are. I don't like them odds!

We did postpone our trip to Illinois until after the storm, being as we have to worry about power going out and flooding if the sump pump isn't working but hopefully we will be going towards the middle of next week.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Just nutty!

Hello, would you believe I just came to say hello?   Oh, alright, I will be your friend for life you would sneak me one of those peanuts that those guys were handing out last night, I won't tell them you gave me another one.

I was a sucker for that pitiful face!   I had to throw out a couple, I mean he came right up to the patio door and scratched at the door just to get my attention yesterday when I was cleaning.  I new they had the peanuts stashed up on top of the frig! 

I got it!  Thank you so much!

I gotta run now before anyone else finds me up here!

Bye now, see you next time!!

School

Well, Friday is the day the daughter has move in day at the college up north and it will be her first time being away from home for any extended period of time!   We will miss her but I think she will be missing the boyfriend and the girlfriend more than mom and dad!   I will miss her but I have to say it will be nice to be down to just one kid in the house for a while.

I start school the seventh of September and I am looking forward to it but I know I will be nervous the first day, of course.   I am ready for it though, I have my books and school I D and parking permit and my brain is another story, I don't know if that is ready yet, but I sure will let you know!!  I have had lots of second thoughts about going I tell you but in the long run it will be good to use the old noggin again.

We are off to Illinois Friday after we drop the daughter off at school.   We are making a hurried trip out home because it has been a few years since I have been back and I didn't want to wait another year because next year we have some awesome plans for travel.   Our 25th wedding anniversary is next year and I told the hubby I wanted to go west and we are going to meet one of my favorite bloggers and visit his part of the country for a couple of weeks!  I will take lots of pictures when I go home this next week and if I can get next to a computer in that time I will try to post but if not I will post the rest of  this week then it might be few days before I get another post up.

Hope you all have a great day.