Well Toto we're not in Kansas

If you've followed the weather you know Tennessee and many of the Southern States went through some pretty bad storms last night. For the first time since moving here we were under Tornado Warnings instead of a watch last night. It was really scary, more so since Jim was in Oklahoma and I was here alone. We had two batches of storms come through. The first batch had the super cells which did most of the damage. Memphis was hit first and also Jackson that cell then moved our way hitting Paris which is a bit N.W. of us it then went into KY. There were so many super cells with it that they kept us in the same warning for a while. The next one was south of us and it kept touching down from Savannah right up the state jumping over Nashville and touching down in Macon County and headed to KY. My cousin is in Savannah but I haven't been able to contact him. The same storm was wide enough that it was covering a bit South of I 40 also near us.
During the first storm Jim talked to me on the phone while I sit her scared to death. Then he was tired after a long day and went to bed so I was alone during the next storm where the warning was out from 9-12:50am I didn't go to bed but sat up as I was afraid that I'd either wake up in KY or not at all. Tom and Puddy strayed on the porch most of the time and my babies stayed real vclose to me.
Joyce called to tell me she would come get me if I was too scared to be alone but I didn't want to leave my babies so I said I was fine. When they announced the storms were clear I went to bed only to be awakened by Jim calling to see if I survived. I was totally exhausted by morning and couldn't get myself moving all day falling asleep on the couch during Oprah late this afternoon. It was evidently enough that now I'm wide awake and it's midnight.'I spent tonight looking on line at the price of storm shelters. We had plenty of rain and little wind, just enough to take one of my lawn chairs and move it across the yard but nothing more that I've seen.

I managed to do a couple of LO's while I pondered my life with TerrellS new kit "Because I love you" and tonight I added a QP to them. I also uploaded the photos from my camera to my computer so I'll post a photo of Puddy and
Tommy too




"Love" photo was in an e-mail









"Because I Love You"
one of my fav's of us





Pud Pud(tiger) and Tommy in their makeshif houses on the porch inder their heat lamp. Two of his wounds can be seen on his paws as you cab see neither looks unhappy. This was before he went to the Vet the second time for altering. Heavy moving van blankets are draped over their "houses" for extra protection. Tom is back to his old self coming and going, but Pud is content to hang around all day. "Timmy" or whoever he is still comes on the porch to aggrivate, but Tom only does that howl like cry back and makes no effort to fight him. I have to get out of bed and chase him off. Sorry , but I can't afford these two much less another one. I just hope he has a home but out here? I doubt it. We did have two warm days till last night when it turned cold again. By this AM it was in the 40's and very windy so I turned on the light again but my last look out Pud was in the chair and not in her house. I suppose she will get in once she gets cold as she did this afternoon. Tom came for supper and left so maybe she is waiting on him to come back.

This is before he went to the vet while I was trying to treat him myself . I used to think he was ugly but he has grown on me and now I find him cute. I know he is grateful to me for saving him he rubs and marks me when I go out to talk to him. I'd rather keep him on the porch at night especially after going through all this but he is still a free spirit and I'm hoping he has mended his ways since he doesn't seem to be after that other cat, like he used to be. We'll see.