Greetings as I post this late Thursday eve; I was SO planning on having a real post this week. Alas, the pup (well, almost 15 months old now) had some complications after neutering last week that still require lots of TLC and another week in a cone, and then Helene came on the scene. All my family as well as some friends (including our Jan!) are in Florida. It's been a busy day of checking in.
And here in the lower Appalachians, we've had a stalled front that was already causing excessive rain, and which then tapped into the Gulf energy and sucked it up like a straw. Rivers are already exceeding their banks. Our son and future daughter-in-law came down from the higher hills north of Asheville to ride this out with us here in the SC Upstate. So we're all under Tropical Storm Warnings (!) and Flood Warnings. Schools in areas around us in Georgia, SC, and NC are closed.
Not sure we'll have power into tomorrow, so let me send wishes for safety to all, and you'll find the Roundup this week with our wonderful Irene. (Here's hoping the storm is not causing too much trouble in Alabama.) She's got a peek into a new book she and Charles are launching next week, THE MISTAKES THAT MADE US.