I didn't steal them, I saved them!

So we spent the evening out and on our way back home tonight we stopped off at my parent's house for a few minutes. When we were leaving my dad walked us out. He always walks out with us when we come over. Their neighbors have a pretty little apple tree in the front yard right by my parent's driveway. This tree had hundreds of pretty green apples on it and tons more that were on the ground. These people have lived there for a couple of years and I've never seen them pick apples. Actually, I've only seen them a few times. I think they're hermits. Anyway, my dad was talking about how most of the apples just fall to the ground and rot because they don't pick them. I'm surprised really because apples aren't cheap. When we left, we were driving along and I mentioned what a shame it was that all of those apples would go to waste. When Mike got to the end of the street I asked him to turn around and go back to parents house. He asked me why and I told him I needed some of those apples....LOL! See, I wasn't stealing the apples, I was saving the apples from their unfortunate demise should they be left there to fall to the ground and rot or worse be eaten by some ugly bugs. It was already dark out so nobody would see me anyway. Or at least that's what I thought until I noticed the flash from a camera! My husband was taking pictures of me "saving" the apples! Can you believe that?! He insisted I put it on my blog or he was going to. Lord knows what he would have typed up to go with it so here it is....lol. Thank goodness it's dark....I can't be indentified...lol!It's not like I saved that many...only 9. I didn't have a bag so I loaded them up in my purse. If I would've been wearing a dress I could've been like Julia Robert's in Sleeping with the Enemy...lol! Apparently while I was apple picking my kids were in the car laughing hysterically for whatever reason....lol. Apparently they got a huge kick out of me stuffing the apples in my purse and an even bigger kick out of Mike taking pictures of the whole thing. I explained to them that I was only picking apples from the branches that were hanging over in to their grandparents yard, technically making the apples my parents apples and they said I could have them. That wasn't entirely accurate but I'd never want them to think I was stealing something because I wasn't. I maintain that I was saving them..LOL.

I don't know if many of you have watched the national news lately but we've gotten TONS of rain over the past few weeks. We've had some serious problems with flooding. I was actually worried for a couple of days that the water was going to make it's way inside the house. We had very heavy rain at at one point our back yard disappearead. It looked like a lake. There are several areas in town that have had to be evacuated. There are some very expensive houses located in low areas and the water is swallowing them up. We went out looking this evening and couldn't get down in to that are but we did go by the Wichita River and you wouldn't believe it! They said the river is going to continue to rise until Sunday morning. Not good! I took all of these pictures between 7 & 8 tonight. The water is just fixing to come up on Interstate 44. It's just crazy! I'm betting if they've not closed it by now they're fixing too. Look at that overpass! That water is covering alot of street area! Talk about scary! Now this hotel here is located right by the river...well...now I guess it's in the river :0. We saw them evacuating people by little boats. The van you see here is in the higher level of the hotel parking lot. There's supposed to be an on ramp in this last picture but the river swallowed that up too. :o. I can't believe how much it's rained the past several weeks! And I really can't believe a lot of people are losing their homes because of it. The bad thing is we have very good chances of rain for the next few days. Luckily we don't live anywhere near the river. We did see several houses along one end of the river and the river was literally in their backyards. It reminds me of some of those pictures I saw on TV of Hurricane Katrina. According to the news, a state of emergency has been declared for Wichita Falls. If you want to see aerial photos, you can see them on my fav. local TV stations site here: http://www.kauz.com/ Enough of the depressing stuff, I'm off now to see if I can make a pie or something out of the apples I saved...LOL!