Diaries

I left here around 3pm yesterday afternoon to drive down to Winston to meet Nancy and Betsy for dinner at Five Points restaurant. It’s a nice place to eat with good food and at reasonable prices. I left the restaurant about 6:45 to head back up the mountain.

This morning it was 41 degrees, sunny, and breezy when I took Colin out at 7:30. I went to the gym, came home to do a few chores, then back to the gym for my midday shift.

The high today was in the upper 50’s but the wind died down this afternoon. Low tonight in the upper 30’s.

It was 59 degrees this morning when Colin and I went out with cloudy skies and no breeze. Today’s high is in the upper 60’s and humid. Tonight it is supposed to be back down into the upper 40’s again with some drizzle.

I volunteered at the bookstore this morning.

I had around 10 inches of rain for the two days. Behind hurricane Michael a cold front came through bringing wind and cooler temperatures. It was 47 degrees this morning when I took Colin out 7:30. The high today was in the upper 60’s with a breeze but clear, sunny skies.

It cleared off late yesterday afternoon but was very windy. I still took Colin out for a little ball playing anyway. I went to the gym this morning, home, and back to the gym to work a midday shift. James had finished mowing my yard by the time I got home and is mowing the neighbors.

Finally it feels like fall.

Michael ripped up the pan handle of Florida as an almost Cat 5 storm. I mentioned yesterday we were getting rain all day from the outer bands. Nope, we were getting rain from a front pulling moisture from the Atlantic off the coast of NC that had nothing to do with Michael.

We had about 3 to 4 inches yesterday from that system. Last night as Michael started heading our way we had another 3.5 inches overnight when I dumped the rain gauge this morning about 8:15. It was pouring buckets but I finally persuaded Colin to go out and do his business. He’s no dummy. He ran for the pines along the side of the yard and we went potty underneath them.

I waited until about 9:30 then decided to go to the gym since I needed to go to the library and the grocery store. The bands of rain went from a steady rain to heavy downpours in a matter of minutes. My route did not take me into any low lying areas that the streets would have flooded but some of the roads had some deep places that the new car handled very well.

I  just checked the rain gauge. We’ve had another 3.5 inches since this morning with more on the way. Once this rain goes out of here we are supposed to get 20 to 30 mph winds with gusts to 50. Not overly exceptional for us, as it gets far worse than that during the winter. But, with the ground as wet as it is, trees may start coming down. That’s why I went out this morning instead of waiting until this afternoon.

It has rained all day going from a light mist to heavy down pours. This is just the outer bands with Michel actually not getting here tomorrow.

I went to the gym this morning. Poor Colin. Every time I think it slacks off enough to take him outside to play it starts pouring again two minutes later. So, lots of indoor ball.

This afternoon I went back into town to pick up something from Joyce at the bookstore she had for me and to haul some boxes of books to Cares and cardboard boxes to the recycling center at the landfill. By the time I made into town it was at least just drizzling while I loaded the car.