Flood Story

A friend and colleague from work was rescued from her attic by a professional swimmer.  She saved her 4 year old daughter and 2 dogs by putting them in a floating ottoman. 

Read the full story here:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/06/flood.survivor.story/index.html

Water water everywhere.

Luxurious normality surrounds us in the middle of a city full of loss.  We are counting our blessings.  One by one. 

Nashville Tennessee Flood 2010

She's left us (again).

Which is a good thing for the city of Nashville as we are suffering from a water shortage and Macy is a laundry-doing machine. But a bad thing for us as we now have nothing to wear or eat, no one (happy) to rock the baby at 2 a.m., and a whole lot of dishes that need to be washed.

Thanks, Macy, for getting us through the transition of my return to work. Too bad we gave you a cough. But hey, at least it wasn't head lice or pinworms, right?

We've had a little rain.

This is the softball field and playground across the street from our neighborhood. The red-roofed building is the bathrooms, which, as you can see is almost totally underwater. I've never seen anything like this.

Between work and the children ...

... I may never get anything done again ever. Like, ever ever ever.

Case in point: This garden project.

First, I nursed the tomatoes from seeds to seedlings in egg cartons. Then I was worried that it wasn't quite warm enough, so I planted all the colder-weather stuff and didn't have room for this stuff. Next, I simply moved the ones that were taller than two inches into pots. After that, husband was persuaded to build a fourth tier of the garden. When it was built, we didn't have enough dirt and nobody has had any energy to go back to Lowe's. So here they sit.

Now, a spider has connected the eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes with her web, and still they are all INSIDE. It is nearly May and the heating pad is still under the peppers. And there's storms predicted for the weekend.

Y'all. If I lose these mail-ordered heirloom plants, Brian will murdelate me. So, this is one time when a gardner is NOT praying for rain. Because losing the crop will definitely not bode well for my next project: Chickens.

As if I need another project.

But Organic Gardening magazine decided to use "Happy Hens: Choosing and Keeping Backyard Chickens" as their cover story. And now I've got chicken fever again. And you can get the chicks in the mail. And Brian is talking about shooting the neighborhood cats so we can keep them in the backyard. He's tempting me. I love cats, and it's not even legal to keep livestock in your backyard in our county, but have y'all seen how regal a Spangled Russian Orloff pullet is? Or a Blue Mille Fleur d'Uccle rooster? Give me strength, Lord because I just do not have enough will power not to order some baby chickens in the mail. I just don't.

Blog Layout

As you can tell, I've been experimenting with the look of my blog.  I can't find anything I like.  This one is OK, but I'm thinking of switching to Wordpress ... anyone have experience with that?