Archive for the ‘Alabama’ Category

Tornado On La Manga Drive – My Dream

So my dream takes us back to my childhood home, or rather – my childhood street, where my mom still lives. I suppose we were back home for the summer – as we usually are, but, were not able to this year. I say this, because, it was totally present-day, present-time. I mean, like – [...]

April 27th Haunting Even Me

I feel so stupid. I’ve tried not to mention this to anyone, for fear that I’d be acting selfish. But it seems the stupid, horrible storms are haunting even me. All we got was some roof damage on the house and some roof damage on the shed. Of course, the yard and street were a [...]

Great Big Alabama Snowstorm

Now I know my friends up north are looking at our pitiful snow on the ground with the grass sticking up through it and laughing! But we really enjoyed it – probably much in the same way that you would get a kick out of wearing shorts on Christmas! We were actually lucky enough to [...]

Tornado for Christmas break?

That’s right, folks – you heard it here first! That is, of course, unless you’ve been watching the Alabama news. You haven’t, have you? Well, we are under a tornado watch until 6pm. Tornado watch? A few days after Christmas? That is so weird. And it has been in effect all day. That is a [...]

Pink sunrise in Alabama

Yesterday morning, I just happened to glance out the front windows while the kids were getting ready for school. And what I saw was so beautiful, that I immediately ran and got my camera! I called for the kids to come and see. The funny thing was, Patrick was actually looking at the clouds out [...]

Wildlife morning in Alabama

We had a rather exciting, wildlife morning the other day while getting the kids ready for school. It started out when I was in the kitchen alone, before the kids got out of bed. I was standing in front of one counter, and I heard something in another counter on the other side of the [...]