A few days ago there was a severe tornado warning...a tornado touched ground in several places about 50 or so miles away from here. Thankfully nothing happened...the worst was a thunderstorm.

But of course we didn't know that when the warning was issued, so we batted down the hatches and got our basement ready in case of a close by tornado.

MeMe was freaking out...she was so scared that our house would be destroyed. Towards the end of the warning period, Lilly said in a fearful voice, "Is the tomato coming closer?" Ha! 

After the storm, the sky turned freaky...

Everything was fine and there wasn't any damage at all (although five people were killed and there was lots of damage in other towns).

Which brings me to this morning. 

Around five am I was awakened by rain pelting my window. A few minutes later, the wind starting blowing harder and harder - I was honestly afraid it was going to break the windows. Then the tornado sirens went off. I ran downstairs and alerted my parents - with all the wind it was pretty faint. We woke everyone up and ran to the basement. Fifteen minutes later the sirens stopped...we turned on the radio and we found out that the sirens had gone off because of a severe 100 mph winds. I thought it was windy, but I couldn't believe it was 100 mph! (Yep...those Oklahoma plains)

One man that my dad knows got stuck in his apartment because the wind ripped off the roof of a nearby storage shed and slammed it onto his building (no one was hurt).
We're so thankful that everything is alright!

Have you been having crazy weather?

-carlotta

Summer is getting nearer and nearer, folks...I can practically taste it. Only two more science classes (I CANNOT wait until it's over), and everything else is winding down. Ahh :)

Enough talk about summer (or I'm going to get WAY too excited)...let's get down to business.

Happiness is...

...Saturday mornings spent at the Farmer's Market.

...seeing horses for the first time (up close) in quite a while. Man. I wish I had taken advantage of our two horses while we had them...

What are two things that made you happy this week?

-carlotta

PS I think next week for Happiness Is I might try to set up a MckLinky and make it a blog hop. If I do, would you participate? If I don't get enough people that are willing, I don't think I'm going to bother, though. It's all up to y'all :)

This week's Raw(e) theme is automotive. I had a hard time getting a picture (because of my too high standards)...I couldn't bring myself to just take a picture of any car...I had my heart set on getting an old car. Preferably from the 50s or 60s. (That is why this post is up late)
Finally, I got slightly desperate and decided to go on a walk around our neighborhood, with the intentions of trying to find a vintage car. So there I was walking around, when I heard siren after siren after siren. After siren. I had to know what was going on (Because I'm nosy like that...I guess reading all those Nancy Drew books when I was nine did something to me!). I tracked down the sirens, and finally got to the scene, which on a busy street about half a block from our house. There was a nursing home on fire, and there were, I kid not, eleven fire trucks, along with a couple ambulances and a TV reporter. I don't think anyone was seriously hurt, though. I saw one man on a stretcher who was being carried to an ambulance, but when I left - about twenty minutes later - it was still there.

After gawking (Why must we have such a morbid curiosity?! Can you believe I was looking to see injured people? It really bugs me that I'm like that.), I turned around to go home, and there was THE car. An old orange Ford pickup. I guess my curiosity payed off? ;)

I also won Raw(e) last week with my running photo! To say I was happy is an understatement. Anyway, because I won, I get to pick the winner for this week...my automotive picture isn't going to be in the contest (unless I pick my own, which I most definitely will NOT!), but I love Raw(e) too much to miss a week.
I'm looking forward to seeing y'all's photos!

Head on over to Sailor and Company to link up your automotive photo!
To learn more about Raw(e), go here to the first "edition".

-carlotta

Why must pictures of me always be taken when I'm not paying attention? Stupid in between moments.

And will someone please tell me why I thought it would be a good idea to post these?

-carlotta