Tropical Storm Bill, Now Hurricane Bill...

is expected to head off into the Atlantic. It's not a threat to Puerto Rico, so far, but, I'm ready and going to keep tracking it, in case it goes more southwest than north.

Lots of rain in PR yesterday

Yesterday, coming home from church, we saw a very large blackish-gray cloud over parts of my town. When we got close to the International Airport, the sky started to fall! One of my sons took a few pictures from a cell phone camera...
...then he gave me the phone and asked me to take a picture to show how little could be seen. This was surely a gray day.
View from the side of the car.
When we got home, we found that the creek had overflowed the bridge. I just KNEW this would happen one of these days, and it did. How did I know? Well, the town mayor got impatient one day and had the municipality widen the bridge, which was good. The BAD part was that they only allowed 2 large pipes for water flow under the bridge. I've lived here for 22 years and know how that creek can grow. Those holes weren't going to be enough to hold the water should the ground become saturated and lots of rain were to fall. And so, it happened.


The water was started to recede when we reached it. It was about one foot over the bridge, or maybe 9 inches. We went over anyway, because this is a vein of the main creek. Had it been the main creek, we would have headed over to my Mom's house for a while, I think, to wait for the waters to go down.

Can't imagine how Noah felt, waiting for a world flood to go down. And this was not even because of a hurricane. What was left of Tropical Wave Josephine had already passed us, although I might be mistaken.

It's a Soggy Day in Puerto Rico

Well, I thought that Hurricane Hanna was gone, but it seems to have taken a liking to The Hispaniola. We're getting a LOT of rain here because of it, with gusts of wind and rain reaching us periodically. I truly thank the Lord Jesus Christ for sparing us the hurricanes!!!

Today is a good day to take out some crochet and make a shrug I promised Crochet Partners I would give a try. I already have the paper ready, to draw up a diagram. I'm using a different size yarn, and would rather do it with a paper diagram than try and figure out the math. Although, using math isn't such a bad idea...

Here's the shrug I already started making:

http://www.craftyarncouncil.com/mar06_mesh.html

and here's the picture:



too bad I won't look like that when I'm done and try it on, haha!

River