Tuesday at the Froeschkes

 7-6-2021 - Tuesday

We expected it to be raining when we got up at 8:00, but that forecast changed to rain starting at noon. Then 4:00 p.m.   You certainly cannot base your plans on the weather forecast here -- it changes every hour.  Andrew brought out his stack of Garbage Pail Kids cards and we sorted through them, looking for matches.  Catalina had a few cards too so we added them to the pack, then Andrew dug some more out from his room.  Joe and I went to Target and I looked for more of those cards, but they didn't have any.

Today was really all about getting ready for the storm, and then waiting for it to get here.  Joe and I ran some errands, did a little shopping under the threat of rain, but it apparently slowed down and it took all day to get here.  (We even carried our umbrellas in a couple stores.)   John and Bridgette picked up anything loose in the yard.  They got in a little football practice in the evening, still waiting for the storm.

This is one of John and Catalina's sneaky football plays.  He swings her around and over Andrew, but then she's too dizzy to run.

It had begun to drizzle, but that didn't bother them.

Bridgette and I stayed on the patio, and Joe joined us.  (We really don't like to be rained on.)

When we came in, we got out the dominoes and played our first game of Mexican Train here.  Andrew really liked it, probably because he won three hands.  But Joe beat him by 7 points.  Catalina picked this game up quickly and could pretty well play it on her own.  John joined in to help her, but she was doing fine without him.  We only got through the 8's, so we will continue that game tomorrow.

Having been through storms here in the past, John and Bridgette took the storm warnings seriously.  He moved Bridgette's new truck closer to the garage (we had the Jeep in the garage, since her new truck doesn't fit), set the basketball goal down, and picked up anything loose.  He filled up the water tank on their camper.   All I did was bring in a flashlight from the Jeep.  They told us to charge our phones in case we lost electricity, and we had stocked up on water.   But it was really almost a non-event, it went west out in the Gulf and passed us without any significant damage.  I saw on the internet that there was some street flooding, but we got lucky this time.  John said, now we wait for the next one!  Oh yeah.

We did see 2 sandhill cranes yesterday when we were running errands.  We always see lots of birds and ducks, and we have been watching for the peacocks again, but still haven't seen them.  John saw a dolphin when we were at the beach but I didn't even see that.  

Wednesday morning is a little cloudy, and the high is only supposed to be 82.  It's drizzling a little, and rain is forecast for the afternoon, but what else is new.  I'm pretty sure we will play some more dominoes.