Inspirational Quotes

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."-- Voltaire


"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."-- Henry Ford


"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."-- Mark Victor Hansen


"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."-- Col. Harland Sanders

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."-- Thomas Dewar

Monday, August 4, 2008

Never A Dull Moment aka Edouard

We returned home from the funeral very late Friday night/early Saturday morning (depending on how you look at it). It was 3:30 a.m. I was non-functioning at that point, especially considering in the previous 37 hours, at least 20 of it were spent in the car. Ugghh.

Saturday was spent mostly trying to sleep and orientate myself to what went on while we were gone. After a good nap after church Sunday I began to feel human again. Then, wouldn't you know it, never a dull moment (even if you wanted one). We are on our way to church Sunday evening and find out that Tropical Storm Edouard has formed in the Gulf of Mexico and guess where it is headed - straight for Galveston. Did I mention that we live 20-30 miles from Galveston (as the crow flies probably closer)?

So we spent last night making preparations and they resumed at 5:30 this morning. We are closing the business at noon today and don't plan to reopen until Wednesday (provided we have power). While you should never under-estimate any tropical weather, at least this is not predicted to be a major storm. We will be staying home and battening down the hatches.

Everyone take care!
Betty

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