Hey Ladies!!!!

Just got my power back a little while ago...my parents have had power, but no internet...no real damage...fence is down at my house and my parents escaped untouched this time. We came back in town Tuesday evening with no power at either place, but thankfully my parents have a generator that ran the a/c. Work was also spared...thank goodness!!!

Cat and Zeff...so glad to hear you are both doing well!!!

Cat...I agree...I'm SO tired of eating junk that it's unreal!!!

Time to go put all the cold stuff back in the fridge!

Glad to be back girls...I can only imagine what I've missed!!

Glad to hear that all of you are back and made it through the storm.

Mandy, I'm glad you're OK! :) Now I can breathe a sigh of relief that all our girls are safe and sound. :grouphug:

I am so glad you are all fine! Now we just have to worry about Ike! :(

We had tornado warnings earlier in Connecticut, but no reports of any tornadoes as far as I know and I didn't see no hook shape anywhere which indicates a tornado so who knows.

Mandy, glad to hear you are ok too. Sorry about your fence. ouch. hope insurance will take care of the cost. After K, we replaced our wooden fence with a wire one with stakes and started growing jasmine vines on it. They are filling out nicely and it smells great when blooming. We figured if it ever went down again, we could just prop that baby up again.

Went to "the pig" yesterday and restocked my fridge, but only with essentials just in case Ike comes to call. I made a big pot of stewed chicken and we could not wait to get into it. Our first home cooked meal in a week!! The chicken I used was still slightly frozen when I sauted it. About an hour or so into cooking, I took the lid off to stir and it had a funky smell to it. the chicken was "bad". I was so mad. We ended up eating tuna fish salad instead.

Then around 6, the power went off again. Luckily it was just about 1.5 hours till it was back up again. I was getting ready to cry thinking I would lose yet more boxes of fudgesicles and popsicles which was the only thing I replaced in the freezer. I'm sure this will be happening for a while yet. I still hear a couple of generators running in the neighborhood this morning.

Great to read that Mandyleigh is back! Now my chickies are back in the nest.

Now that Hard Hearted Hannah is gone we need to worry about Icky Ike!

oh i hope IKE turns....

we were all prepared for Hannah and got nuthing but rain. tied down my chairs for NOTHING.... oy,.

glad everyone is safe and only slightly impacted.

Cat - our power went off the day after it came back on as well - we were without it for 3 hours....I cried.

Oh man, I hope Ike turns...I'm so sick of worrying about hurricanes. I wish DH was planning on going to law school in a northern state!

Have fun with cooking today - I wish my family raved about my food that much ALL the time :) Even though it was only a few days - I could have heated up dog food and it would have been the best meal ever.

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Guys, I'm so glad to hear that Hanna wasn't bad. I was worried about it all day yesterday.

Zeff, just talked to my husband and the power at SLU is off again. They are back on generator power in his building which is the main frame computer for the university. Not good. He usually works from 8-5 on Sundays, but he had to go in from 5-2 today...which are his weekday hours. They have to have someone there 24/7 again till the power is working correctly. not good.

I have broken out with a rash on my face and upper chest. Don't know if it is "nerves" or from the heat when the power was out or from the crap I ate last week. ick. I'm not a rash person, so I have no idea. I took a Zyrtec and put benedryl cream on it and will skip working in the yard today. This whole week has been so sucky.

On a fun note, I ordered myself a birthday present yesterday. A weed flame thrower. The weeds have gotten so bad, that hand pulling them in the driveway is not an option. And, I hate using poison. It should be fun. It has a dolly for a propane tank that you haul around and blast weeds with. I can take out my aggresion on weeds!!!! whoosh!!! My boys both like playing with fire, so I'm sure the "huck finn" thing will take hold and they'll end up doing it.

My Mom and sister overnighted me 2 battery operated fans that are really neat. They got here last night, so at least I'll have them for the next one. gulp.

Glad you girls are back and are safe and sound. We had the post tropical Hannah here for a visit, lots of rain, and some streets are flooded, I can't imagine what you chicks go through.

LOL This thing looks crazy!!!! I can't wait to hear if it works well- all I can think of is when we used to burn piles of leaves in the yard and ended up with burn marks in the grass... but looks like this is much more targeted.... a flame thrower for weeds- whooda thunk it?!

Yep Rikki, should be fun! I have a very long gravel driveway. For years I've been hand pulling and spraying with round-up type stuff, but really don't want to use that poison and don't like fooling with it. Torching sounds like a better way to go! I used my little propane torch on some weeds in my brick patio and it was fun to "boil" them! the way it works is that it boils the water in the plant cells and they explode. Chemistry and gardening all in one!!

Sooo glad everyone is okay. :grouphug: I was thinking of you all.

Keeping :crossed: that Ike twirls away into nothing!

Cat, I don't know if you want to bother with spraying, but I hear vinegar (the really heavy-duty stuff you get at the hardware store, not the kind at the grocery store) works even better than Roundup on killing weeds. Just spray it on. Voila! :)