Well, Grandma, I told you I'd post again when I had something interesting to write about.
Tonight we had our first tornado warning, and thankfully, the tornado missed us here in BG. Before dinner, Mark noticed on the news that our county had a severe thunderstorm warning. I had noticed some other counties had tornado watches earlier in the day. I said to Mark, "I guess if there's real danger of a tornado here, there will be sirens or something, right?" We weren't quite sure. Well, about half an hour later while we were just about to finish dinner we heard this weird noise--a siren. We wanted to make sure we knew what was going on, so Mark turned on the news (while I cleared the table). Sure enough, we were under a tornado warning. Mark looked it up online, too, and confirmed that this meant we were supposed to take shelter. Luckily, as some of you know, our apartment has a nice, roomy bathroom with no windows. We're also on the bottom floor of our building, which is halfway below ground level. I had joked before moving here that we'd have a pretty good spot in case of a tornado (as if I really knew anything about that :-). Well, I did feel better there than I would have up on the 3rd floor! So, we took our laptops in there and hung out for about 30 minutes while we waited for the warning to expire. Whew! We made it! (Although a tornado was sighted about 9 miles east of here). I guess we'll probably have a few more of these during our time here...
In other news, I made chicken spaghetti tonight--the same recipe Heidi made for us when we came through Oklahoma City. It was good. But I mention it because when I went to the website for the recipe, I noticed a cute pic of a basset hound on the side bar. It turns out that the same lady who wrote the recipe has a whole blog about her basset hound, starting from when he was a puppy. Since we had a basset hound, Penny, when I was growing up, I found it very entertaining. She has tons of pictures and funny stories about the dog. I started reading from the bottom of the page up, and I'm hooked. I thought some of you might also enjoy it (at least the pics!).
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When I lived in Illinois (on the 3rd floor), there was a nearby tornado. Sadly, the safest spot available was actually outside by the mailboxes. Happily, we got a cool view of the weather and got to hang out with some neighbors.
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