In that holler back in the woodsI kept thinking of this song while I was gone to all the conferences, so in a futile effort to get it out of my head, here it is.
Where the country folks got it good
Homebrewed, homegrown
Where the wild seeds 'a get sown
It's a blast from the past
All the cowgirls shakin' their sassafras
Let out a howl if 'ya feel like 'ya gotta
If you wanna go on back to the holler
Holler back
So... Tropical Storm Edouard. French name, French personality. Total wimp. Now, I AM thankful it wasn't a bad one, but dude - the media needs to quit hyping these things up like they're gonna blow us all away. People won't believe them when there actually is a serious one on its way. The reporters were going around TRYING TO FIND high water to stand in and report about. It's retarded. HOWEVER - we did get a bunch of rain, which has been desperately needed here for a month or so now. Conroe is under mandatory water rationing (which doesn't really affect Jason and I, since we're in an apartment) and a burn ban.
When I woke up Tuesday morning, I was expecting to go to work, as it was just raining - but the weather people kept saying it was going to get a lot worse around 11 am. So I called Pastor Quail, who told me that they were going to close the school at 11. I decided not to go in, just in case it did get worse and I wasn't able to get home from church. Jason went in to work for about 2 hours and I went back to bed (glorious sleep!!). He came home at 11 and we piddled around until about 2:30, when I decided to clean our tub/shower and he decided to go back to work, since there was practically no wind. Just heavy downpours. And that was basically it the whole day - lots of good rain, but nothing else. No flooding, either, since the ground has been so starved for water.
We (as in the Conroe area) actually had a random pop-up severe thunderstorm with a tornado and all on Sunday evening. The wind was upwards of 35+mph gusts, the power went out, and the rain was so hard we could barely see to drive (we were on our way to Jason's parents' house during the worst of it). There were trees and power lines down everywhere, and a tornado was spotted in Cut-n-Shoot. This 45-minute storm did more damage than a whole days' worth of a tropical storm. Gotta love gulf coast weather...
Today is my last day of work for this week, as tomorrow we're heading down to my parents' house for Bekah and Zach's wedding! YAY! Thursday is various preparations and the rehearsal, Friday is the wedding, Saturday we'll be hanging with the Stuckwisch clan and Sunday there will be a mini Theiss reunion with my dad's siblings at Grandma's apartment. I'm really excited about the whole shebang, since we'll get to see tons of relatives and friends - not to mention the fact that my sister's getting married! I, by the way, am a bridesmaid, so I have a gorgeous dress (in cranberry) and really awesome sparkly shoes that I get to wear. Yay for getting to dress up!
Look for a post about our new puppy soon... :-)
EDIT: Anecdotes from the life of a small-town church secretary, #1: The Chairman of the Board of Christian Education and Youth Chairman and general fix-it guy (yes, one person) of our church just came in and told me and the pastors "Don't flush the toilet, don't cut the water on, don't do ANYTHING with water until I come back and tell y'all to." I really need to learn to quit holding it 'till the last minute.
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