Thunderstorms

It’s that time of year when the skies darken, you hear distant thunder, the lightening streaks, the thunder comes closer, the lightening begins to “pop” and the rain or hail starts to fall.  This afternoon in the space of about 10 minutes we got half an inch of rain and just small pea sized hail.  Another storm just blew through again with more rain than hail. 

It was yoga day and we had a pleasant surprise, our instructor, Ebbie,  had some visiting friends who just graduated from instructor school with her.  One of the ladies sells a variety of essential oils and did a presentation.  Plus Ebbie had prepared an awesome lunch for us—a very nice surprise!

Back home I made Michael lunch—Ebbie offered to send him a plate home but I didn’t think he would want quinoa salad or caprese salad??? 

Tomorrow I am heading off on a little trip—remember we had contracted with a vehicle transport company to haul my Cadillac from Corpus Christi to Montana??  Well, they never could find a semi driver who was willing to transport the car for the price quoted us!!!  And they were pains in the butt about giving me my deposit back—but I persevered and the charge was removed from my credit card.  So, I am flying to Corpus tomorrow and driving the car back here to Montana—a long, long drive but I will be fine.  I have driven from Arkansas to Montana by myself a couple times, it’s not that much farther. 

So, I spent the afternoon packing my suitcase, removing one quilt from the frame and loading another.   In between Emmi and I played basketball.

My iPod and I are still struggling—downloading audiobooks to iTunes and the iPod used to be a fairly simple process using Overdrive Media Console.  Something changed recently—did I inadvertently change a setting somewhere, has iTunes changed something—I am having one heck of a time.  Lonnie tried to help me last night and today I sent an SOS to Rick as I know his wife Paulette listens to audiobooks while quilting.  Rick sent me a Youtube video—the method described in the clip does work but only if the audiobook file is one recognized by iTunes as in not a WMA file—thanks Rick! 

There are dozens of free applications which convert WMA books to Mp3 format but until tonight I hadn’t found one which would actually work.  This one—Freemake—might work but I am skeptical, the program so far in 30 minutes as only partially converted one part of a 16 part book?????

So, tomorrow’s blog will be coming to you from Aransas Pass, Texas—Michael and Emmi are staying home and holding down the fort.