Change is Constant

And especially with me.  Same blog, new look.  You can let me know what you think.

Our rain total for this storm was 2.25 inches.  We kept getting tornado warnings at days end yesterday on our weather warning radio, but other than black ugly low creepy clouds, thunder with the occasional flare of lightning we wouldn't have known anything was going on out there.

Today was mostly sunny, cool with lots of clouds floating through.  I had a wonderful massage at noon.  And a first for me...instead of being a lump of uselessness for the rest of the day I actually cooked dinner.  THEN we went for an after dinner hike out on the trails....I KNOW...ME!?  No dust, the colors more saturated with the damp evening light, no one else was out there and so fresh smelling!  Oddly this was our first evening hike across the highway since we've moved here.  The clouds were beautiful.

Gracie loved the walk.  She prances so that her little feet hardly seem to touch the ground with her nose high in the air so she can catch every little smell on the breeze.  She would like to stop and sniff every blade of grass but we keep her moving.  

Two sad happenings yesterday.  One with a happy ending and one not so much.  First we send our love to our cousins Mike and Pat...they were traveling on highway 50 when control was lost of their vehicle and they actually rolled off the highway and down the hillside, but due to a boulder they only rolled twice and lived to walk away.  A Good Samaritan stopped to help them get out of their truck.  As I understand it they landed upside down and were trapped inside.  Other than being very sore from their wild ride they checked out okay, though their truck was totaled.  I'm waiting a couple days before I call and get the details.  

The other sad happening was a friends horse somehow broke its leg in its pasture and had to be put down.  They'll never know how it happened, the storm may have spooked it and it could have landed in an animal hole in the ground or just twisted wrong, but it was a compound break and...well you don't need all the gory details.

Hope you enjoyed your walk with us!