Holy Moly it’s a windy one out there – Hurricane Sandy is making
her presence known - there is no escaping it…
Ta Da!! Here is our grill cover; it’s the third one we’ve
owned because well, they keep blowing away… Now please note the top of the
grill, where the dark mark is to the left of the big rock – that is where the
large SINGLE rock we usually keep on top of the grill cover had been sitting
this morning. We place a giant rock on
the cover, ah yes you got it – to keep the cover from blowing away – AGAIN.
This morning I was sitting in the living room, listening to
the wind howl and watching the driving rain when I heard an odd noise – I turned
towards the kitchen windows and out of the corner of my eye saw the cover – ah yes
you got it– Blowing away – AGAIN.
I jumped up, ran outside in my socking feet, into the storm,
onto the mushy lawn and chased the darned thing to our six foot fence. Good thing we have a six foot fence or it
would have been another goner… or it just would have been another goner if I wasn’t
home. Slop, Slop, Slop, that’s my socks sloshing
back onto the patio. Freezing out – wet –
windy – yucky.
Run inside, remove my socks, put on shoes and run back
outside – I can’t believe the wind blew the rock off – it is not a small rock! Go over to the pond, steal a second rock, set
it down on the cover with the other one, walk four feet – POOF! Off she goes again. Really?
How can it be that windy? And
just at that thought the storm door blows open and smashes against the brick
wall, ah crap – and wait, is that one of my mums? It’s like a tumble weed blowing down the
drive way – how far did that thing fly?
There isn’t a dirt trail until it got to the middle of the drive and
landed….hard.
Grab the cover, run back to the pond, grab a larger rock,
freezing, wet, put the damn thing on, position rocks strategically. Snap tumble weed picture with phone, grab the
door – shut it, grab the plant – toss it in the garage, start to gather the
other plants – freezing, wet, windy.
Just go inside – bolt the door shut….
Oh, need a picture of the grill this would make a good post –
wait a while for my fingers to thaw out.
Rain eventually stops, wind still howling, go outside, snap picture of
grill – look for mail – no mail -ha, like a mailman in our area would deliver
on a yucky day – I should have known better – bolt inside, freezing, windy.
Wow is it yucky out there – good luck East Coasters, we are
just catching what is whirling up the Great Lakes and it is nasty – can’t imagine
what you are seeing fly through the sky right now, perhaps the wicked witch of
the West will make an appearance, or should I say the East and call her Sandy? Seems
appropriate – it is after all, almost Halloween…
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