Monday, September 22, 2008

My Poor Baby was BittenToday

Dallas hadn't even been at preschool for 2 hours when the phone rang. Her teacher was calling to tell me that another little girl had bitten Dallas on the arm. She didn't break the skin but she did leave her bite mark on Dallas' arm. Dallas was crying but she was okay and they had ice on her arm. It was a totally unprovoked incident according to the teacher who witnessed it. When I picked Dallas up later that afternoon the director mentioned that the little girl had done this before. Kids will be kids and things like this unfortunately do happen so I didn't make a big deal out of it. If something like this does happen again I will ask that more be done. Dallas is fine now and hasn't even mentioned it tonight. Give her a few chocolate chip cookies and she's happy!!!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

New Camera and of Course Pictures

Dallas is getting more used to the idea of being in front of my camera now. I bought the newly released Nikon D90 last week and I love it!!! I am also taking a photography course finally and am learning how to take it out of "Auto" mode!!! Here are some of my favorite pictures taken over the past few days.





Friday, September 5, 2008

Post-Hurricane Update

We all made it through the storm. It was bad but not quite bad as it was supposed to be. We went to my parent's house and stayed from Sunday to Wednesday. I don't remember much about the hurricane because I took a tranquilizer and went to bed!!! I slept for a while then a big branch came off the tree in the front yard and hit the bedroom window. Thank goodness the windows were boarded up. The electricity was off for about a day and a half but it didn't bother us because we had a generator on the refrigerator/freezer. My parent's have a motor home so we took turns relaxing in there with the air conditioning and satellite TV!!! There was no damage to my parent's home, our home, or my little brother's home. Our home lost power for 2 days and we are still under a "Boil Water Alert". I lost the entire contents of my refrigerator and freezer because things had started to defrost. I can't complain because we could have lost much more. I just can't restock it yet because the grocery stores also lost everything and it will take at least a week to restock them. Somehow all 3 of us have managed to become sick. This is a first for all of us to be sick at the same time. Coughing, sneezing, sore throat, headache: you name it, all the good stuff. So we are at home resting and doing nothing much. I am closely watching out for the next hurricane and praying that it doesn't come near here(IKE STAY AWAY!!!). I managed to take some pictures during the daytime when the curfew wasn't in effect.

The pecan tree in my parent's adjacent lot. Took out 2 neighbor's fences!!!

Snapped power line downtown.

My brother's neighbor lost an old oak tree.

Mulate's world famous Cajun restaurant lost it's roof.

Pulled the pumps out of the ground at the service station.

It didn't take long for the hummingbirds to return.