There you have it-our take on some things we are getting used to in the south. I have found the last year as God has changed my thinking to be more kingdom-like, I'm less worried with things like differences in a region than what I'm used to. But the scorpion did it-he brought the earthly a little too close! Thankfully, this move since God is changing my perspective, I haven't been nearly so unsettled by things that are different-but I did want to note some of them for y'all. See-we're embracing some southern life. Goodnight y'all! Stay dry and out of tornadoes-we hope to!
The last 24 hours we had some major thunderstorms! We were in the midwest for so long that we are very used to intense thunderstorms, but the last few years on the west coast made me forget the intensity! Our kids LOVE the storms-kind of surprised me actually! Yesterday afternoon when the rain started to just unload from the sky and the lightning and thunder came in, they begged us to go out on the (covered) front porch and watch. When we went to bed it was storming but not quite as intensely. We were watching tornado watches around the state and even farther north where our offices are and other friends live. I woke up at midnight to some of the loudest thunder I've ever heard! It didn't worry me but I was awake for sure and then noticed the huge rushing wind. When it stopped suddenly and was quiet I got a bit worried and decided to at least check where we were in terms of tornado alerts. Conditions were definitely right but the storm became more consistent again and I went back to sleep. I woke up several more times to the thunder but wasn't worried about tornadoes any more. At one point I thought I heard hail (and not far from here at all there was huge hail earlier in the day) but this morning no signs of it. This afternoon was decent-cool and damp, which felt very familiar, but tonight the thunder is picking up again. We'll see if it is nearly as intense. We like the thunder and lightning and storms-we had missed them! We don't like how we can get grey, rainy days on end here. However, all the brown of winter (which had surprised us) is blooming and green like crazy today just from a day or 2 of so much rain. There are different flowering trees here than we've had before. Some have white and yellowish flowers and spread all over. Some were huge white flowers that opened sporadically and now have all fallen off. There is beautiful wisteria which is a purple vine that goes way up the huge trees and hangs off kind of looks like lilac bushes but in clumps like grapes. There are also these trees with tiny feathery like purple blossoms that are pretty and so subtle. And we have a single rose out front on a bush. We had awesome warm weather for a few weeks before damp, cool set in and with the warmer weather we are missing James. James was our AMAZING exterminator from our last state. We have killed a handful of centipedes, 2 other unidentifiable bugs (not cockroaches) and on Saturday-a scorpion. Those are all inside the house. Outside we've seen our first fire ant hill, we have carpenter bees firmly established in our cedar eves, and carpenter ants wherever the bees aren't. I'm not looking forward to seeing more southern wildlife in the way of insects as it gets warmer. On a side note, Ty and our landlord are spraying the house this week!!!
There you have it-our take on some things we are getting used to in the south. I have found the last year as God has changed my thinking to be more kingdom-like, I'm less worried with things like differences in a region than what I'm used to. But the scorpion did it-he brought the earthly a little too close! Thankfully, this move since God is changing my perspective, I haven't been nearly so unsettled by things that are different-but I did want to note some of them for y'all. See-we're embracing some southern life. Goodnight y'all! Stay dry and out of tornadoes-we hope to!
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