Monday, September 21, 2009

the rains came down, and the floods came up....

man! who opened up the clouds? it's been raining like crazy around here since 3 this afternoon! it was completely sunny and hot at recess, and a couple of hours later it looked like someone turned off all the lights outside! but i'm not complaining....i love this kind of weather AND i didn't have to do bus duty outside! BONUS!

the day was weird anyway. i told my students that i was moving. thank goodness no one cried {not that i was expecting that} because i would have been crying right along with them! most of them didn't believe me at first. then they got really loud, griping about me leaving. i guess that's better than them cheering! :)

i was going to stay after school and start packing, but i decided i better get home before all the roads flooded. some of the back roads we usually take were already starting to get covered. there were several big tree limbs in the road like this one:
tonight the boys and i were total bums! we put our pj's on as soon as we got home. i heated leftovers and we watched elf! spencer wanted to "start the christmas spirit early!" plus he reminded me that i had already been listening to christmas music!

while we were watching the movie, the sky turned many different colors. the weirdest one was this yellow-orange one. i guess the sun was trying really hard to break through all the storm clouds because during this yellow-orange phase there was a faint rainbow!
photo of the day #262
rainbow in the storm

quote of the day: "What if our new teacher doesn't laugh as much as you do?" ~the student who brought me the dove's feet.

2 comments:

Lisa Howe said...

That was quite a storm tonight, wasn't it? It took me an hour to get home! Glad you made it home safe and had a quiet evenging with the boys.

nellie rae said...

AWESOME pictures!!! i thought the sky was amazing last night too! i didnt get my camera out at all because it was pouring so stinkin' much and it took me 1 1/2 to get home from work! :(
so glad you captured the beauty of it! i loved the weather yesterday.