So it is 5 days before I leave for my trip and this past weekend I was biten by fire ants while trimming the shrubs in my front yard, a Delta Connection plane crashes in Kentucky and Hurricane Ernesto is pummeling Cuba right now!
Just call me Calamity Jane!
OK, about the fire ants. Each day as I go in and out of the house I kept looking at the various shrubs in my front lawn thinking, but more like wondering, when my lawn guy will trim the shrubs?
Finally after weeks of looking at the ever growing limbs and leaves I decide that I cannot go on vacation with the shrubs looking the way they do now, because I would return in a month to a front yard that will look like the jungles of Borneo!
On Friday I borrowed my mom's electric hedge trimmer with the intent to do some "bush wacking" on Saturday. But I got home a little early on Friday evening and decided to do it then. I thought, it's not that much and it's not sunny out so "let's do it now". While I was trimming away I was working up quite a sweat and when I finally got to the last shrub I was trimming I clearly stepped on a mound of fire ants. Luckily I noticed it early and didn't have a ton of ants crawling all over me, but I did have enough and it resulted in several bites around my ankles, a couple on my arms and one on my thigh. Needless to say they itched and burned. I tried using Benadryl gel but that didn't really help, so by Sunday I was taking Benadryl capsules and smearing hydrocortisone cream on the bites. Thankfully when I woke up this moring the swelling has gone down considerably and they should be cleared up by the time I leave for my trip...God willing! :)
Then on Sunday morning as I steam along on the cardio machines at the gym the picture on the TV screen catches my eye, so I tune into CNN. It appears that a Delta Connection flight (run by Comair), the same Delta subsidiary that I will be flying out of Savannah on Saturday, that was leaving a Kentucky airport crashed and 49 of the 50 passengers were dead...what a great way to start my workout! Apparently by some freak occurrence the pilots used the wrong runway that was too short for the plane and it was never even able to take off, it just crashed at the end of the runway. I'm trying to remain calm about this and as a co-worker said this type of plane accident only happens every few years, so given the odds, I should be ok to fly on Saturday...way to stay positive! :)
And now there is Ernesto! I have been hearing about this storm for the last few days, but it wasn't something I was concerned about until this morning. During a staff meeting it was brought up that there is going to be alot of rain on Thursday and Friday and the speculation there might be an evacutation. Living in the lowcountry I don't take the term evacuation lightly. But I am remaining calm and keeping updated on the storm track. To me it looks like Florida is going to get the brunt of the storm and (hopefully) by the time it makes it's way close to Hilton Head it will be just a lot of rain and wind and by Saturday it will have moved up into Virginia and out to sea...I can only hope and pray! But I will keep my eye on this one!
So all this is happening and it is just 5 days before I leave for my trip! I will adopt the postal service slogan...No wind, No rain, No "freakin' storm" will keep me from my vacation! OK, so maybe that's not exactly the postal service slogan, but you get my drift!
Come hell or high water (no pun intended) I will be going on vacation in 5 more days!
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