Raining Cats and Dogs

I've been MIA for a few days! Just catching up on life! Sunday we went to Hickory to look for a couple of end tables. Our new couch is arriving on Thursday and I wanted new tables to go with it. Lucked out at Ashley Furniture and they should arrive in a couple of weeks. We had breakfast at the local Shoney's and enjoyed watching the "locals" there. There were a few bikers that came in as we were leaving - 3 guys and 2 women. Wow ... what a group. Let's put it this way - I had to use the bathroom before we left but the 2 women went in first. I waited till they left to go in!!! They were scary!!

I invited my mom and sister to come over for dinner Sunday night. We were going to put some chicken and shrimp on the grill and I was going to boil a few ears of corn. Plus, we stopped at a roadside stand on the way back from Hickory and purchased watermelon and cantelope, so thought I'd cut that up and serve it. Well, about 6:00 the skies opened up and we had a gully-washer .... raining cats and dogs, thunder, lightning, hail. Around 6:30, our electricity went out. Sooooo ..... what to do about dinner??? Mom and Angela got caught in the storm coming to our house and had to stop a few times to wait it out. Sonny was finally able to go outside a little after 7:00 to start the grill and do some cooking. We ended up putting the corn on the grill with the chicken and shrimp and it was delicious. We ate about 8:00 - by candlelight. After dinner, it stopped raining long enough for us to sit outside for about 20 minutes before the storm came back. After our family left, Sonny and I enjoyed a nice game of Scrabble. Don't know how long it's been since we played that game, but it was fun and I ALMOST won. We don't take the time anymore to just do things together like playing games without the TV or computer being our entertainment. It was nice. Not knowing how long our power would be out, we turned off the A/C and opened our bedroom windows. We actually stayed comfortable all night. The power did not come back on until about 4:30 in the morning.