Day 45

I rained hard in the morning.  Lots of thunder and lightning.  We went off to get the license plates for the car.  When we got the registration we saw that they registered the car in Travis county.  This pissed us off since we had specifically told him to make sure that it was registered in Hays county.  They going to call us on Monday about it.

After that we went over to Harbor Freight (Ellen went to the fabric store).  I really just went to get a free flashlight.  With the coupon and sale discounts I bought $30 (list) of stuff for less than $10 including tax.  We then went to Bed Bath and Beyond and bought some steak knives that they had on sale.  The 20% off coupon made them a really good deal.  We also got a bath mat and a bar-b-que pan using a $5 off coupon.  I like saving money.

We ate at a restaurant across the street.  It was raining so hard that you could only just barely see through the windshield.  I had a raincoat on, but it didn't have a hood.  We both got soaked walking the 60 feet from the car to the front door.

The last stop was Lowe's for some black spray paint for the trees I cut.  They had their Christmas sales going and I ended up buying a couple of tools for really good prices.

The rest of the afternoon was TV and surfing.  The evening was pretty wild.  The hard rain turned into a thunderstorm.  There was almost continuous lightning and a lot of thunder.  Neither Lucy or the cats were very amused.  It rained all night, sometimes really hard.  The neighbors said we got 5 inches of rain.  It rained so hard that the satellite TV quit working.  The internet response went to shit, too.  We couldn't tell if that was because of the storm or just the load on the line.  I had to use the Verizon connection to surf.

To top it all off there was enough rain to set of the sewer alarm.  To make it worse the reset button didn't work.  I finally got the reset button to work, but the alarm kept oscillating on and off.  Luckily the rain let up just before we went to bed and the alarm stopped.  We didn't take showers though.