jennycatar's Blog

Phew
Apr 11, 2008 | 7:57 PM PST
Tags: storm , sunflowers , plants , daisies

The storms pretty much fizzled out and the worst of it passed to the south of us. We did get about a half a foot of rain in two hours and parts of town were flooded pretty bad. But all in all not bad.

Went grocery shopping today, drooled over some of the plants the guy was putting out. Some gorgeous petunias and double impatients, and pots of sunflowers. Think I want to use some of my garden cash to get one of those pots of sunflowers. Along with daisies and black eyed susans, sunflowers are my favorite flowers.

Plan on getting a cute dish planter and a variety of cacti and making a cactus garden. It can stay outside during the warm season and I'll find a place for it inside during the winter.

Hopefully this weekend I can get my daisy seeds planted and haul the pot out for the hyacinth bean vines and get those seeds planted too. I also need to hit Rick's grandfather up for some of his white daisies. From what I understand he planted a small amount and now they are taking over, so I can steal some without a problem.

Hopefully new plants this weekend! 

In for more stormy weather
Apr 9, 2008 | 8:16 PM PST
Tag: weather

The CCR song Bad Moon Rising is so totally stuck in my head right now because "It looks like we're in for stormy weather" Tomorrow is forecasted to be a repeat of last Thursday. I had planned on grocery shopping and lunch at my favorite Chinese Buffet place, but instead I'm going to be spending the day at Rick's parent's house. Even if the weather decides to be nice to us it's better than getting stuck driving in a thunderstorm (I try to avoid that, I'm extremely terrified of lightning - I have no problem driving with my eyes closed but other people might lol (j/k)). Rick's son, and his nephew have a dental appointment tomorrow morning, we're not even sending the boys to school. As important as school is, they're safety is much more important to me, Rick and his parents. 

For those of my friends here who live in Arkansas, please stay safe tomorrow. 

Send us an Ark
Apr 4, 2008 | 1:51 PM PST
Tags: rain , storms , tornado , vinca

It has been raining forever! Ok, maybe not forever, but it sure seems that way. Half the town of Searcy is flooded out. Yesterday was BAD. We ended up at Rick's parents until nearly 1 am because they have a storm cellar and we don't.Two seperate bad storm systems passed over us so we were down in the cellar at two different times, basically coming out during a lull to use the bathroom and get a snack.

I'm a big baby. For as long as I can remember I've been afraid of lightning, and now it's tornadoes. So I sit in the storm cellar rocking and jumping each time it thunders or I see lightning.

After the second storm we waited a while to make sure nothing else was coming up and came home. But being home was just as bad, every crack of lightning, every whistle of the wind, every odd noise made me jump. Didn't sleep well at all.

On a good and gardening note, my free vinca is doing really well. I need to cut back some of the longer vines because they've dried out but it's greening up really well and even have some buds.

 Hope the rest of my Arkansan friends have weathered this weather