Easter - Lake Dallas and Thunderstorms

Happy Easter from Texas!

We miss being with our family. This will be first time EVER to have missed Easter with my grandkids and even some of my kids.

The lightening and thunder hampered the Easter Bunny's deliveries in North Texas. I did spend many hours last night remembering those sleepless April nights in Alvarado too scared to sleep knowing that I was in an open field in an easy to move home with a severe thunderstorm on its way. Like most other nights, we just received a magnificent light show, loud thunder and lots of rain. I did discover that for $12.oo a year I could subscribe to an emergency notification system that would call and/or send a text message if a tornado watch or warning was in my neighborhood. NOAA has fine tuned the process of notification to longitude / latitude rather than county. I couldn't bring myself to buy an annual pass just for one night. I stayed up until the middle of the night until sleep deprivation was too much. Our midnight severe storm finally rolled in around 5am.

We spent Easter with Reba. Very enjoyable visit, but sad to see how much her health has suffered in the past month. She's pale, frail-looking, and has an extremely hard time catching her breath. Tomorrow will be better - she gets an oxygen tank added to her wheelchair and we'll be by earlier in the day.

The remainder of my holiday was enjoyed with phone calls to my kids, grandkids and good friends. Most were hard to catch as they enjoyed their celebration with family, yet we had the enjoyment of touching base with them and sending our love.
(I do know my daughters did an awesome job pulling the family together for the holiday during my absence - THANK YOU with all my heart and gratitude.)