Tornado hits my home town!

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This sucker hit my home town when I was at work! Lived in Milton for more then 26 years and never seen anything like it! Usually a twister that heads our way glides off of the escarpment and misses us completely, but not this time! It was a total site to see! Here is how I saw it.

Outside in the smoke shack at work on my lunch break. It's me and several other people. Minh starts to point "Look look rain!" (he's from Vietnam and speaks Viet-English) so we look over. It was a black wall of rain and we were all completely mesmerized by it! It moved in fast and for a bit we all huddled in the smoke shack laughing at how hard it was raining. Then the shack started to shake somthing fierce so being the brave souls we are we all ran for it laughin our butts off. We stood in the die storage area and watched the storm through the bay door. The sky was black, then it was green. We knew something really bad was going down close by when we noticed the rain was literally sideways and the puddles were all showing rotation. Craziest thing I have ever seen.

Toto there really is no place like home!

Just a note here, no one was hurt in this twister, it was mainly tree and roof damage as well as a couple of cars getting flattened in their driveways.

check out the link above to see a picture of the twister!

Just popping in to say that afternoon shifts give me no time to play! Hope to be back soon!

Hey it's a Miracle!

So I can't grow anything. I generally kill every plant I have ever owned. Aaron went to his church reunion and brought home a potted chrysanthemum. It was very cute, and I killed it. So now I have found myself two cute little plants. One is a lavender and the other is peppermint! I have them out on my little back porch and I check them every day like a complete nerd! To my surprise, last night when I was out for a smoke I had a little look at my herbs and voila! My peppermint plant is starting to bloom! I am so proud of this small and feeble achievement that I had to post it! Now if I could only figure out how to get the lavender to bloom that would be fantastic!

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I'm going back to work! I'm going back to work! I'm going back to work! I'm going back to work!!!!!

okay so i am a little excited! I am going back for what looks like 3 weeks, followed by a layoff of maybe 3 weeks and then hopefully I will be back for a while after that! All I want to do is put hardwood floors in the condo, sell the condo, buy a house and move....wow now that I have written that out it seems like a pretty tall order! Anyone got a ladder?

Been busy this week! Am preparing the gifts for Rachel's wedding (my honey's little sister). She has 5 attendants, a junior attendant and a flower girl. So we are making 5 boxes for adults and two for the girls...plus one for Rachel that she doesn't know about...because it is for her!

I have knocked off the following today. Finished the last two spa cloths. Mixed 12 bags of Lavender/Mint bath salts. Made a batch and a half of Lavender/Mint salt scrubs. Tomorrow will be all of the chunk soaps, plus the rest of the kids soaps! Oh and also maybe some votives as well! The wedding is on the 31st of July but now that I am heading to work on Monday (for afternoons no less) I feel the need to get it all done NOW!!! July is shaping up like December! Four birthdays, two weddings, and the finale of Canada's Top Model!

Speaking of December I am already starting on Christmas gifts. Am doing a bunch of my bags up for the crocheters in my life. Gonna have gnarly old hands by the time I am old!

Oh and tomorrow I go and buy new work shoes...learned my lesson last time!