.:Tuesday, April 8, 2008:.
Delivery Day
| Well, I'm sitting here waiting for the river rocks to be delivered. Hopefully, we will get them here and in place before the rain starts. Then, this afternoon, they are delivering the border rocks to build up the garden. Hard days work before us, but I have no doubt that we can do it. We meaning Tera and myself. Yesterday morning, Jeff and I went in to the base for our deployment briefing. It's real now. I thought it was real before, but it's really real now. I had to stop myself from crying several times throughout the meeting. So, I was super thankful that Tera and I had planned a trip to the Dallas market after the meeting. It was good to go do something fun. Speaking of market, we didn't really buy much for us personally, but we bought quite a bit for the shop! Tehehehe. And I think I found us some really neat product lines to check into! YAY! I'm even tossing around the idea of getting another booth at Georgeann's to start a new line of stuff. Might be fun. We shall see though. On the way home from market, we were about 40 miles out of town, when I got a hysterical screaming/crying call from Zoe. I couldn't make out anything she was trying to say. When she finally calmed down a little, even more panic ran through me as she told me that the sirens were going off in our neighborhood and there were announcements over the base PA and neighbors yelling to take cover fast! There was a tornado on the ground. I reminded her that she knows what to do in a tornado and to get Tera's mattress off the bed and get into the bathtub. I told her to take the phone with her and call me as soon as she was in there. It was taking way too long, so I called her back asking if she was in the bathroom. She told me no. I asked her why and she responded that she was packing. I loudly asked her what she was packing and told her to get her butt in the bathroom with the mattress over her. I also reminded her that there was nothing in that bedroom that we couldn't replace. By this time, I had already talked to mom. She said that there was definitely a tornado, but that it hadn't quite hit the ground yet and that it was between Burkburnett and the base. She thought it was moving along side the base basically though and wouldn't hit this area. Don't think she didn't jump in her car to run to Zoe though. By the time mom got here, the tornado was well out of our path and all was well, but talk about the scare of a lifetime. Nothing is worse than feeling that helpless. As Tera and I drove home at 100 miles an hour trying to get to Zoe, it was a scary site to see all of the beginnings of funnel clouds popping in and out of the clouds. I kind of even laughed telling Tera that we were probably in more danger than Zoe was......trying to make myself feel somewhat better. I could certainly live forever without another day like that again. Anywho, the stone place just called and told me they would be here in a minute. They also told me that they have no way to get into a backyard, so the rocks will have to be dumped into the driveway. Dang it! That's going to make this even more work than we thought! Poop! Hope everyone is having a fantastic day! |
