Bye, Bye, Hurricane Earl!

     Yep! Hurricane Earl has come...and gone. Well, almost gone. He's heading out of our area without much fanfare, except for some pesky wind that has the backyard swirling this morning. But the backyard is still in tact. Actually it's more than just intact. Remember these from an earlier post?

     I called them 'Batman Flowers', but they're sunflowers from our backyard. Well, they decided to pop out and say "Hello!" to Earl!!

    I'm sorry that the photos aren't better, but the wind is swirling so much in the backyard that I was thankful to get these!

    Earl is not being a very good guest, slapping them around and everything! *Teehee* But anyway, he'll be gone pretty soon. I'm very thankful he didn't mess up the house, leave water on the floor, and eat up everything. I've had guests like that in the past...of the 'Human' variety!

    I'm writing some letters, taking care of some necessary chores today, and of course...

   ...watching tennis!

    We've got a 3-day weekend this week, some laundry to do, some weekly meals to experiment on, and tennis and crocheting to waste time on....and thanks to Earl, some time to waste on each other! :-) It would have really been a waste of some precious time if we would have had to spend this time cleaning up after our "guest"!

    In the South, when a guest has stayed for a while and they're in the driveway with their packed up car backing away, their hosts usually start waving frantically and yelling: "Yall come back soon now, ya hear!!" Well guess what? I'm NOT saying that to Earl!! Instead I'm gonna say: "Get on out of here!!!" ... *talking to myself*...Now that's not very nice!! ^_^ (I was much nicer about a previous hurricane we had. Even wrote a poem about it...Earl is not inspiring me to write a poem about it!)

Me And Isabel

She's round and likes to travel,

and goes where I'd like to go.

She loves warm weather and water;

and her size doesn't bother her flow.

She packs a lot of power-

But its peaceful to look in her eye;

And, like me, she gets lots of attention

when she goes meandering by.

Beach-combers hate to see her coming,

because she loves to kick up the sand.

She can be kind of destructive-

(But that depends on where she lands).

I love comparing myself to her,

even though I have nothing to gain

by seeing myself-point-by-point,

compared to Isabel-The Hurricane!