Yes, the tropical storm is here.  I just got home from the office (it’s 10:30 PM).  I thought it might be a good idea to head home because we are under a curfew from 10 PM till 5 AM in the morning here on the Gulf Coast of Alabama due to the storm making landfall around 2 - 4 AM.   It’s a bit breezy outside and raining like everything.  On the way home I could see all of the leaves covering the streets.  But really, that’s not unusual this time of year because they are falling anyway.  Maybe the storm will help to make that happen all at once instead of them falling a little bit at a time (which makes raking and blowing the leaves a weekly chore).

The schools are all closed here tomorrow since it’s going to be rainy, windy (tropical storm force winds) and just overall nasty weather.  The news is saying that there will be a good deal of flooding in the low lying areas due to the amount of rain that we’re going to get from this storm…  But where I’m located, we’ve never had any problem with flooding thank goodness.

Well, SAM has been with me almost 100% of the day today.  He doesn’t like to be alone… I don’t know if that is because he lost his owner and is afraid he’ll loose me too or what.  But he has to go where I go… including to the school to take DD and to pick her up LOL.  He’s such a good boy buy I just don’t know how we’re going to be able to keep him with our outside dogs, our one inside Maltese and the one inside kitty.  He’s just not socialized toward other animals, especially any that are smaller than he is.  So, for now, we’re just keeping them all separated and locked up in separate rooms.  I’m kinda thinking about getting him a extra large crate so that when we do let the kitty out of lockup or the Maltese out of DD’s bedroom, we will not have to worry about him attacking them.  I know it’s just nature and he’s a hunter type dog.