Really Celebrating Thanksgiving Today

I am really celebrating Thanksgiving today. 

I haven’t been on social media for the last two and a half months due to Hurricane Idalia. Fortunately, all life, human and animal survived the hurricane/tornado arrival without a scratch.

My First Big Thanks

Not so fortunate for the Farm. A very noisy tornado lifted the barn into the air to spin pirouettes that took out a carport, the irrigation well house and holding tank, the tractor shed, then it put a huge ding in the screen enclosure around the water garden before making another pass at the house.

This time it decided to jam four steel ribs into the roof that penetrated the ceiling in a room in which my daughter, a friend and I were keeping a eye on the donkeys in the open pasture.

Fortunately, being Alabama bred in a area that was prone to tornados, I was watching the sky. The sudden arrival of that weird metallic sheen was a warning we all heeded. In short, we took shelter in another part of the house.

My Second Big Thanks

We are not back to normal yet but we do have the roof repaired as so many in the area do not. The metal debris is gone. The hundred or so trees have been cut up and removed and one of the sheds is already in place.

We have had so much help from contractors, landscape people and, of course, our own efforts. We wouldn’t be as close to normal without all the people who worked us into their already jammed packed schedules.

My Third Big Thanks

So, although I have not been writing, I have been super busy. Hopefully, I can get back to Tina’s book before the year ends.

Meanwhile, Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone,  I hope you have a long list of good people and good things in your life like we do.