Wacky weekend
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Mine was a little wacky. It started with miscommunication between Michael and I about my schedule Friday evening. I was working our booth at the Arts Festival, and he thought once I was finished with that I'd be heading home. We talked on the phone as I was walking back to the station. I said, "I am drenched in sweat!" He said, "So what's your plan?" I said, "I don't have one." He said, "OK, I'll just see you at home." That's pretty straightforward, except that I thought Michael knew I had to anchor the ten and he thought I was heading home at that moment. Consequently, he was wondering what the heck happened to me until he turned on Channel 13 and saw me on the anchor desk. Oye! I wish I had planned to skip the ten - I was a hot mess for it! Saturday was fairly laid back, but it was so stinkin' hot and humid that we didn't do much. Overnight we both almost jumped out of our skins during the storm that evidently landed a lighting strike or super strong winds right on the transformer on the power pole in our back alley. Holy cow, was it loud when that thing blew up! We had some other drama after that that's not worth going into, but it all resulted in our night's sleep being interrupted so we ended up staying in bed far longer than we'd planned to on Sunday morning. When we got up we discovered two things. One - the power was still out, and two - we had some water in our basement. Grrrrrrrrr! We were without power for most of the day and then watched the MidAmerican crew replace the destroyed transformer (see the cruddy pic I took with my cell phone through our screen door). It was pretty fascinating, actually. My dad was a lineman for Nebraska Public Power so I grew up with a healthy appreciation of what these guys do when severe weather hits. Thank you for getting us back up and running!
No Gray's Lake
You'd think it would've occurred to me that Gray's Lake would've been closed since we had water in our basement, but I was so excited with how gorgeous the weather was this morning that I headed there anyway! I was so bummed when I saw all of the water and barricades and I nearly decided to just blow off my outdoor workout plans. Instead I did I run/walk through our very hilly neighborhood and I'm so glad I did. There are few things as therapeutic as fresh air, sunshine and a good sweat. Now I'm just hoping the dry weather continues throughout the rest of the week so we don't have a repeat of 2008 on our hands. Right now the experts are telling us there are some similarities, but things aren't shaping up to be as bad as they were then. Keep your fingers crossed!
Summer slipping away
I can hardly believe the 4th of July is this weekend! The past several years I've gotten almost a panicky feeling when we reach this point of the summer. I think about all of the things I want to do but haven't, and how in a few months the leaves will be falling and how shortly after that the snow will be flying! Do you have any big plans for the weekend? My folks are coming for a brief visit before they go to our home town for my dad's 50 year class reunion (weird!) so we will probably hit the Farmers' Market, do some grilling and take in some fireworks.
Right now my stomach is growling so I'm going to head home for dinner.
Have a wonderful week!
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Erin.Kiernan@whotv.com
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