OT-Where are you Emily?

Kirsten, I apologize; I should have posted Houston got nothing from Gustaf except a couple very brief showers on Monday and some gusty wind at times. The storm made landfall just west of New Orleans and moved noth, instead of hooking back and turning south. I am certain Arkansas is getting pounded hard; I'm praying all is okay with Sharon and the rest of our online friends around there, up into MO and IL. Thanks for thinking of me! Emilly

I'm so glad you are ok. Now we need Sharon and Olwyn Mary (and any others in the path of Gustav) to check in....

Beverly

Thank you both for the kind thoughts!! We're a little water logged. There are very good things to be said for living at the Top of a hill. ;) It started raining Tuesday morning about 10:00. Hasn't really stopped yet, but it is much lighter this morning and the weather guy says by noon it should be stopping. We got about 6"+ of rain. Some street flooding here, but nothing too bad. There are about 140,000 folks further south in the state that are without power. Lots of trees falling over with just a little wind. The ground was already really saturated. We've had the wettest summer since we moved out here three years ago. So with this much rain on top of a record summer already, the trees just can't cling to the dirt anymore.

But all is well with us, and I am grateful for that. Charlie Dog will be glad when it stops raining. He finally broke down and had a "long trip" out to the backyard last night. So long in fact that Mother had to blow him dry with the hair dryer. He was dripping wet. Neither of us would like to have to repeat that performance. lol He's also missing our morning walks in the park. I think he was a little jealous of the toy poodle up the street who wears a rain poncho in weather like this. ;)

Thanks again!

Sharon

So make him a rain poncho of his own!

They are not difficult to make, but getting the pet to wear it might be hard. I made DS one for his Sheltie once; when we put it on him, he was so angry; he scratched and yelped till we took it off. Later, he found it in the laundry room and proceeded to destroy it. It was comical watching him, tear it up, and that was the end of trying to get him to wear one. Emily

I have Shih Tzus, and to make them comfortable in the summer I always have them trimmed fairly short. If the nights turn cold they shiver. So I have knit them nice little sweaters and they are perfectly happy to see the sweaters come out of the drawer, and snuggle right down in them. I'm not sure how they would react to a rain poncho, though.

Beverly