Storm

I am sitting here in the near dark, the power is out, writing this on my laptop, with a little battery light clipped on the top of the screen. I have my battery powered TV going, and I can cook as my stove top is propane. Thank goodness I put a new tank on last week. I got the box of different size new batteries for flashlights out of the workshop. I don't like to use candles as the cats could knock them over and start a fire. I got what I call my 'gas' coffee maker out of the RV and I am all set.

I know this laptop battery won't last too long, so I had better get off here. 4.15 PM

Update: The storm has gone by, and it is lighter in the house now. The power company doesn't know when the power will be back on. 5:30 PM

Another Update: Finally got the power on at 6.30, but now the broadband and TV cable is out, so I am on dial-up, and using the little battery TV on 110v now, and just getting the channels I can get "by air". I have the laptop plugged in and charging, as the power might go out again. I can hear thunder in the distance. But at least the AC and water is on now, and I am back on my desk top ! 7.00 PM

When that storm was going through, as dark as it was outside, I could still see some pine trees were really bending over. I was afraid one of them was going to drop in my yard. There are pine needles everywhere that blew off house's roofs, and the streets are littered with branches and twigs. And Eduard hasn't got here yet ! 8.00 PM

A really stormy day.

Debken on Ha'penny Bridge. HiLo Final Paint.

Here is Debbie Kendall on the Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin. She used to work on cruise ships, so she has been all over the world. The sights she must have seen. Now she and her husband Rod fulltime in their lovely 5er (Fifth Wheel Trailer) traveling this great beautiful USA.

Here are the pictures of the final coat of paint on the two sides of the HiLo. There were a couple of places that had to be done over on the passenger side, so I quickly taped them up and Ray sprayed them.

Now we just have to do a couple of places on the rear.

It is Adoption Day today, so I will be going to the next town,

so I can pick up some more Zinc Chromate Primer.

With this cyber war going on between Blogspot and IE, I had to do this through Firefox. Now I remember why I don't use it unless I have to. I am lost without my AOL 'carousel', where I have places stored that I need to go to quickly, with their icons chosen by me.

Then I miss the little red heart that is on each web page that I can click on and send that whole item in an email, IM, or Favorite Places.

It must be an AOL thing. I use that little red heart to send myself items all the time, and then store those items in folders on AOL Email Storage. I try not to keep much in this machine, as it did a nose dive once before. That way important stuff can't go down with the ship.

I hope my foster kitties get adopted today.

Ha'penny Bridge. Final Coats of Paint on HiLo

Last night, Deb of "Keeping up with The Kendalls", http://debandrod.blogspot.com/ was in the RV-Dreams chat room, and she mentioned the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, and sent me a picture of her on the bridge. She sent it as an attachment, and I don't know how to get it out of my download manager, and into 'My Pictures', so I can't show it to you. So I did a search and came up with these pictures of the Ha'Penny Bridge. It was a toll bridge and the toll was a half penny.

There is even a Ha'Penny Bridge Pub in Boise, Idaho.

Here is a picture of the inside of it

Well, as a "Texan with a British Passport", I am all too familiar with the terms 'ha'penny', (half a penny), 'farthing' (quarter of a penny) , 'tuppence' (two pennies), 'thruppence' (3 pennies), 'shilling' (used to be 12 pennies), 'bob', (slang for a shilling), 'dollar' (slang for 5 shillings), 'quid', (slang for one pound, used to be 20 shillings to a pound), guinea (21 shillings). Since I left England in 1963, the money went metric, and now they have Euros. But when I went to school it was like adding up feet and inches here. 12 pennies made a shilling, 20 shillings made a pound. I am sure that once they got used to it, the Brits were a lot happier adding up money when it went metric.

Just like it is so much easier to add up centimeters and meters, instead of feet and inches.

We got the final coats of paint on the HiLo, but you have enough pictures for today.