Home for the Holidays....

Christmas Eve eve we left the beach for home. As is to be expected traffic was crazy on I-10 & 12 west. We made it home with no problem, unpacked our stuff, unwrapped the take out we'd picked up along the way and settled down in front of the tv - and....we haven't moved much since. Shameful but nice. Today was a bit more of a normal routine, tomorrow will be busier and by the weekend we'll be back to normal. These last few lazy days were much needed.

Our last day at Dauphin Island was one I hope to never experience again. J went to work, I got busy packing and getting ready to leave when he got home that afternoon. A front was moving in so it was rainy and breezy. By 11 am the emergency siren (which is right across the street) was blaring along with the warning signal on the tv. I tuned to the emergency channel and, sure enough, a tornado had been spotted in the Gulf and was moving right across the Island. The entire front of the house faces the Gulf and for several minutes I thought the door, then the entire front of the house was going to blow in. By the time the weather settled down and I, somewhat, calmed down, I realized my legs were shaking. Freaked me out! I gotta tell you, it's not fun being alone in a strange place with no car when there's an emergency. Not fun at all. That's just one of the things I do not like about all this traveling we do.

The lovely beach house we've been staying in is getting more and more difficult to rent as snow-bird season approaches, so I'm once again looking for a place to call home - temporarily. Sigh. It never ends, does it?