The Best Laid Plans

Not many things went according to my plan today. To start the morning off I found out that my friend and neighbor ,Sherri, lost her mother during the night. We had been expecting this as she had been non-responsive after a stroke at a hospital in Charleston SC for two weeks. This news prompted my other friend and neighbor,Cathy, into action. We needed to plan a dinner for them to have upon their return to Charlotte. Out of town company would be coming on Friday - we needed to coordinate meals for their visit. We also needed to plan a menu and coordinate who was bringing what for the meal following the grave side service.

I won't bore you with all of the details about the rest of the day except this one:

This afternoon I was busy preparing a meal for Sherri's family. Jere and Caroline had gone to play with their cousins for the afternoon so the house was unusually quiet. I began to hear sirens and they sounded close by. I figured there was a wreck at the nearby dangerous intersection. For something like 30 minutes I kept hearing the sirens - off and on - more and more sirens were sounded.

Even when I went in our bathroom I could hear these sirens. I figured I had not had the house to myself all summer and just wasn't used to the quiet. That would explain how I could hear these sirens.

Cathy called me from her car as she turned onto our street. Did I not know a house on our street was on fire? There were 8 firetrucks on our street. Apparently the house 2 houses up from ours caught fire! The mailman came 3 hours ahead of schedule today and saw the flames. He called the fire department. Coincidence? I think not!

Our neighbors are at the beach, but will have a house to come home to - thanks to a mailman ahead of schedule.

You can see some of the firetrucks lined up below.



I did not follow the menu plan today. We had a slight deviation in plans.