Good evening. Had a good visit with son's family yesterday, but yes, I was very tired when they left. The two-year-old is very sweet natured but he is one of the busiest I've seen. Outside, he'd be out of sight if you turned your head for a couple of seconds. Climbs on things, high and low, inside and out. In the bedroom he found a bottle of black craft paint and a bottle of white-out and had a grand time with both before anyone noticed. It was all over him, his stuffed toys, the floor.
He was sitting there in it, smiling so sweetly, as though he were proud of his accomplishment. Then last night, with company long gone, I was awakened again at 2:00, to attend to some needs. Back to bed at 3:00, and another hour to get back to sleep. Today I'm recovering and doing cleanup and laundry. Grateful to my niece for bringing over some pork chops, corn on the cob, and rolls.
Poirot, that map helps me to see where people I know are located. Houston and all of that area is like a foreign land to me. Only went there once, when I was about 20. I haven't heard from my cousin In Sugarland. He's not on Facebook and we only talk occasionally. But he's very much an experienced outdoors/nature person, has done volunteer work for ages, so I think he would have done whatever was necessary to take precautions.
I also have cousins in Corpus, I think I already said, and I have friends in and around Houston. It seems nearly everybody knows someone in that area. So many people living there. I'm hoping and praying all will remain safe. My husband has had his tv on the weather channel all day so I've been seeing coverage.
Dry as my part of Texas usually is, I have been in a couple of situations, decades ago, where we got rain amounts into the teens in a matter of hours, once in the Dallas area, and once here. Still, this present disaster on the coast seems to be something beyond what anybody can remember--with much more rain still on the way.
