Rainy Days of July

Not to jinx the the flow of goodness, but how crazy has this week been with all of the thunderstorms and RAIN on back-to-back days! I am so happy to get the rain, believe me, but I can definitely do without all the lightening strikes! Not only are they hair-raisingly scary to hear and feel, but they can do some serious damage. Unfortunately, we did not weather this stormy week in July damage-free. Yes, the storm on Monday (which was by far the worst one of this week) managed to fry our garage door motor. Not only will we have to replace the entire set-up, it will cost almost $200! And this is not the first one to be fried for us either! So we cruised up to Home Depot last night after work and researched the price for a new garage door opener. Even with my 10% off coupon I have, it is still going to $180... Bummer. And since we only have one key to the front door, we also had copies made of the key- one Georgia Tech one for me and one UGA one for Hubby (because he thinks he is funny). And wouldn't you know that when we got home, the new keys did not work! Oh well, what is another trip to HD? Just more gas wasted!
One positive note... with all of the rain we have gotten, my tomato plants are really growing!

There are little green tomatoes every where on them... we will be eating tomato sandwiches soon enough..

Not A Good Start Today

So this morning when I went to leave our house, the garage door would not open. I suppose with all the lightening we endured in all those heavy storms in the early evening, maybe the door was shorted...? Who knows and Hubby is still out of town. In my haste to get on the road to Boot Camp, I had to lug all of my stuff back up the stairs and then exit thru the front door and down all the front steps... and I was sweating buckets the entire time because of how humid the early morning was. I then had to feed the dog and try numerous times to get the door locked (the key has issues)... needless to say, I was VERY late leaving the house. I was exiting the neighboorhood by 5am. Well, guess what... lo and behold one of Cobb County's finest was parked in the middle of the median on Johnsons Ferry Rd at 5:05 am this morning clocking vehicles!!!!! I could NOT believe that on the ONE morning I am running late, some cop is actually using his radar gun at 5:05 AM!!! I mean there are what like 10 cars at the most out at that unspeakable hour of the morning!!?? And then, after I got onto I-285 Eastbound one of Dekalb County's finest is clocking folks from the emergency lane!!!??!! Oh I was LIVID.. and very late to Boot Camp... NOT a good start to this day AT ALL.