Crazy Weather & Weird Weekend

I'm about ready for some normalness....(yea, it's not a word, and Firefox tells me this also by underlining it in a squiggly red line).  This weekend was crazy with the weather.  The forecast wasn't looking so hot as I was leaving Mom and Dad's house Saturday evening, but I had no more than got home when it seems like everything let loose.  Mom called me to see if I had checked the weather, that they were talking about severe thunderstorms.  I decided to hop in the shower quickly to have that out of the way.  I'm no more than out of the shower when Mom's calling me saying that a tornado was spotted 7 miles northwest, and moving southeast.  Crap!  I throw on my clothes and gather everything up...blankets, pillows, flashlight, weather radio, FM radio, cordless phone, and cell phone.  My KTVO station went off the air, so I wasn't receiving any weather updates, so I'm talking to Mom and she's keeping me posted.  I make a mad dash to grab my netbook and head back to my safe haven, my bathroom (my most interior and smallest room in my apartment).  This whole time my weather radio has went off SEVERAL times with SEVERAL different alerts...on top of that I was getting phone calls and text messages from Mom, my aunt Nancy, my cousin Barbara, and my co-worker P.J. just to make sure I knew about the warning that was out.  Needless to say, about this time I was about ready to S*** A BRICK, as some would say. Fortunately, as I sat patiently on my toilet seat in my safe haven, the storm passed without a sign or sound of a tornado.  Maybe being prepared helps?

This is a picture I took after the storm had passed...

(Post-tornado threat picture taken out the back windows of the apartment.)

Sunday when I made a trip to Memphis I had quite the entertainment when I stopped at Meema's house.  I had spotted this guy when I was going through town to stop by Pamida, but while I was sitting at Meema's he was continuing his very slow trek up Market Street.  Obviously this man was traveling with everything he owned, (which by looking looking at the second of these two pictures was six cart loads of stuff).  If I had to do was he was doing I would have left four carts behind somewhere else.  He would walk two carts about a block down the street, leave them, walk back, get two more carts, walk them up to where the first two were, and continue the cycle for the last two carts.  So basically for each cart he was walking a block.  I know it's not nice to make fun of people, but sometimes it seems like there would be a much simpler way.

(Making one of the three trips with two of the carts.)

(In this picture it looks like he's got quite the train of carts going on.)

When I stopped by Meema's I got quite the surprise.  She was watching Camme while my cousin went to a funeral.  She was being just as ornery as usual!

(Camme actually stopped and let me take a picture of her...what's up with that?)

After I had been to Meema's I went up to Mom & Dad's for a little while.  We played hoseshoes, which even though they had freshly refilled the sand the water below was still there from all of the rain.  The horseshoes would splat in the sand, and they also made some decent sized holes in the yard also!  As I was getting ready to leave I snapped a picture of the sunset...

(Sunset from their yard.)

Tonight for supper I made something that I had never had.  Chicken salad but with grapes, English walnuts and honey mustard.  This was quite a bit different that regular chicken salad because you have the sweet from the grapes and the crunch of the walnuts. This is definitely something I will have to fix again.