To all you lovely ladies who have brought sons and or daughters into the world... bless you for your service and love to your children. May you be properly spoiled today!...

We awoke this morning to tornado watches, thunderstorm watches, and eventually thunderstorm warnings. If you are looking at the radar map above anytime close to this entry, you'll see a great line of severe storms raking across Georgia and South Carolina...

...we monitored The Weather Channel this morning for regular updates, and I turned up the volume on my laptop for Weatherbug updates as they chirped on. But, as is usual for our area of the South Carolina Lowcountry, nicknamed "God's Country", the severe storms split to the north and south of our particular area just as the storms were bearing down on us. The result: we got a wonderful rain this morning, thoroughly soaking the yards and making the grass (and weeds, unfortunately) turn into a new shade of brilliant green.

On the other hand, my crystal fairie roses were just starting to bloom in brilliant clusters of quarter-size white blossoms and this rain should help bring them to full open today.

Since it rained this morning, I don't have to wash the cars or do any outside work today... and the puppy is squeezed in tight beside her mommy (my Bride) for the duration of Mother's Day...