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Janet: Wow. Love the piece your husband did. Very impressed. It rained yesterday. Seriously. Poured. But it quickly passed after an hour and so now our huge piles of trash on the sides of the road are now soaked again.... the mold will continue to grow. Need to roll out my calves and other muscles. They seem to be…

Hey all, I've been doing Keto since April along with my husband. He is MUCH better than I am at keeping to the diet and tracking his intake. I've dropped from 168 to 155 and just can't seem to get below that 155 mark but I'm not unhappy about it. I have two main questions: 1) My biggest issue is having enough energy to do…

All marathons are 26.2 miles long. Half-marathons are 13.1 miles. So this time around I'll be doing the full 26.2 run instead of the half I usually do. I'm not fast, I'll probably walk a little over half of it since I'm planning to do a run/walk of running for 2 minutes and walking for 3 minute game plan. I always get…

My son showed up at my door at 5 am and we hit the roads. We ran 10 miles. Always more fun to run with a buddy and it's extra special when it's your son! I'll be ready for that marathon in December. He is running the same day/time/place as me but he's doing a 100 mile race. Crazy kid! (who complained he's getting old, he…

Been very busy here in Houston. Still helping with flood clean-up and such and having repairs done on my home so I've been absent. Saw the very sad news about Gloria. She was such a sweetheart. A reminder to hug the ones we love as often as possible. Machka9: Christmas in summer. My son spent a year in Australia (Adelaide)…

Hi all, Over 600 new posts since I checked in last. Not even going to try to catch up. I've been absent with reason. The past two weeks I've been helping gut houses and doing flood recovery/relief. I have a good friend who was able to get into her house for the first time just last Monday. We spent four days hauling water…

I'm going to share this long post here. If you have a mind to copy it and put it in a file where you can refer to it if you are ever in the situation that we are here in Houston. It's a great great post on how to help people who have flooded. I'm sure it would work for those who have suffered in a fire or other disaster.…

Oh yes, it is true. But it wasn't just a bedding store. It's the largest furniture store in Houston. Gallery Furniture. Jim MacIngvale (Mattress Mack) on the very first day of flooding not only opened up his huge showroom but sent out his trucks into flood waters to rescue people. He had over 600 people (I heard maybe up…

This is Buffalo Bayou going through downtown Houston today. Still out of its banks but not in the streets anymore. It was up in the building in the picture before receding. This pedestrian bridge was about 15 feet under water on Monday and is normally about 30 feet above the water. So it is down, but not down enough. They…

Really really hate that this storm is continuing its massive flooding rains as it moves on. Beaumont, Port Artur and New Orleans. Such destruction. Off to do clean-up if we can avoid high water. Don't worry. Turn Around. don't Drown.

Hi all, I don't have time to read all the posts I've missed. We remained dry and it has stopped raining at our home. It rained for 82 hours straight at our home. I think we ended up with around 30 inches of rain. Our downtown house got 38 inches of rain. The damage there was limited to the garage. We lost power two days…

26 hours of continuous rain at our home now. We've had 22+ inches fall. Only 3 or 4 more days of this.... augh! Houses in my development are flooding, ones that have not flooded in 30 years of being there. It really is crazy! My city house seems to have topped out at a foot in the garage. Minor really considering there are…

Water is now in my city house garage. It's about a foot up the steps to get into the house. Still 3 feet to go so I'm hopeful that it won't go that high. I'll be tearing out sheetrock no matter what. My neighbor down there keeps me updated. Here at home the creek has gone out of it's banks and is rising but we are a long…

For comparison sake: Here is a picture of the bayou I posted a picture of above when it is "normal". That's my husband standing down in it. I was standing on the bridge that is barely showing in the flood photo. Marcelyn still dry in Houston but not going anywhere.... and yes, still bored.

What a difference a night makes. Houston is now flooded. My city house is surrounded with water. No water in the house because it's four feet up on piersThe bayou has never jumped the banks on the south side where it is but it did this time. All the major bayous are out of their banks and it is still raining. We've had…

Where I live is right in the middle of the red spot. Cheri lives up close to the town of Bryan. This was the 7pm radar. Marcelyn

Rain totally manageable here. Three tornadoes within 10 miles of us but we are okay. The storm is lessening and going a bit north of what they predicted but it's still early. So far the flooding has been minor with only one creek going out of it's banks, the bayous all holding strong. Looks like we are in for 3 to 4 days…

A tornado warning woke me up at 6 this morning. No tornado around me though there's been about 15 spotted in the greater Houston area. It's been raining most of the night. The storm is just sitting over Victoria TX and it looks like days of rain. We've had about 8" so far in the last 6 hours. Looks like a long wet week.…

All set for Harvey here.* propane - check * water - check * food - check * gas - check * generator - check * flashlights - check * batteries - check * books - check I don't anticipate much wind here in Houston but we will get a lot of rain over the next week. The forecast says anywhere from 5" to 35". My experience is that…

Getting all geared up for Harvey to hit. It will come ashore quite a bit south of us, down by Corpus Christi but we are on the dirty side of the storm so we will experience heavy rains. Right now they are saying anywhere from 6 to 18 inches of rain. Pretty wide swing there but if you're ready for 6 you're ready for 18. The…

Spent the morning viewing the eclipse with some of my grandkids. Meeting another set of grands at the school bus. The first day of school at a new school and first time riding a bus. Mom is more nervous than they were. Going for seafood tonight with my husband for my birthday. We had our family all over for a "Caning…

I had big plans for the morning to run my 9 miles. My alarm went off at a quarter to 6 and I turned it off. Then at 6 the cat came in and started yowling. Guess she wanted me to run. So I got up and went out but called it quits at 3 miles. Just didn't have the energy for more. I have to up my game or I'm going to die in…

Roatan is an island off the Honduras. It is part of Honduras. Nice place to dive, we've been there several times. The most famous blue hole is in Belize waters. I'm at about 200 dives now. My husband is great at being a buddy. We stick like glue. If I'm videoing he watches me closer as I go up and down a lot more and go…

Some views (fish) from under the seas. I use a GoPro camera and capture stills out of the video. I didn't do much videoing this time around. Bonaire has an amazing number of fish, a HUGE number of fish, there were schools of them all around us. First up a cowfish. (see the horns?) An Anenome. These little guys will eat…

My view almost every night last week. Bonaire.

Off to go swim with the sharkies again.... Headed to Bonaire for a week of diving. Living on shore this time, no live-aboard so we'll be hauling gear around and getting a workout walking down for shore dives. Rented a condo with some friends so we'll save by cooking our own food. Maybe I can control my intake better this…

Yo. Had to take my daughter to the doctor on Saturday so I didn't get my run in. Celebrated birthdays today so I ate cake instead of running.... Soooooo..... tomorrow I do my run. 8 miles. I think I'll be starting about 5:30 in the morning so I avoid the heat. It means running in 80 degrees instead of 95 degrees. I'll take…

Lenora - The snake that is a "look-alike" is a king snake (a Scarlet King Snake has the exact same colors, just different orders. A "regular" king snake will have white instead of yellow). I always check the color markings. There's a simple rhyme to learn to remember the correct/safe order... "Red touch yellow, deadly…

Well you under-endowed ladies will get a double blessing in my "boob cooling pads".... they would function as push-up pads at the same time giving your that old lift back making you look like you have perky 20 yr old bosoms..... lol Sewing lesson went well. She finished about 1/2 the dress. It is a quick pattern so I…

Yo. Sewing lesson with another granddaughter today. She's making a reversible dress, should be quick and easy but tons of clipping seams. Hopefully she won't clip through her stitching. Bound to happen though, always does with a beginner. Need to go pull weeks when the shade hits my flower bed. Not about to go out in the…