Just giving you a head's up-

I am going to take the month of July off from blogging. I need to make drastic changes in my life. so for the next few weeks I will be focusing on these issues.

Now don'tcha all forget me ;)
Peace-
Linda Fleming

Isabella-my storm forecaster...

Isabella woke me up at 7 a.m. by trembling so hard she was making the bed shake. I listened for a minute but didn't hear any rain hitting the roof, no thunder or wind, either. I tried explaining to her it wasn't storming, there was absolutely no reason to be afraid, and damn it- I didn't go to bed until 3 a.m. and wasn't ready to get up yet! But she wasn't listening to me- she was cued into her inner barometer and it seemed to be telling her the mother of all storms was coming to kill us all. So I got up and took her out to potty. It was cloudy but didn't look like a deadly storm was headed our way. When we got back inside I checked our local weather channel and discovered there were severe storms, flooding and a tornado in St. Pete and Tampa area (about 25 miles north of us) and there was a huge storm in the Gulf heading for us in Bradenton.


When we came back inside I tried to get her to eat her breakfast, but she immediately went and sat in front of the cabinet where I keep her xanax. It was as if she was saying "Screw the food, I want my damn drugs, and I want them now!" So I gave her a xanax, and as I read my e-mail she went to work nursing on Little Puppy.

Soon the thunder started booming and some serious storm clouds rolled in...

Now the rain is pounding the roof, thunder is booming, and water is already standing in the street out front. I just checked the radar and behind the storm that's over us now, there is a huge red and yellow glob out in Gulf moving our way. We are under a severe storm and flood warning, and it looks like it is going rain most of the day. Instead of going shopping as I had planned, it appears I will be spending the day with a drugged dog under my feet.

Peace-

Linda