Do it again

<sings>  And we're back where we started/here we go 'round again!  Tornado warning is in effect for Malden.

Mia got a new dress a few hours ago, and so she joins Candela Laura and Rita Cheryl.

Mother of God, I'm so sick of this crap!

Yours prayerfully, 

RagingMoon1987 

Level five

I've got the Severe Squad with me again.  Candela Laura in her new spring clothes, Rita Cheryl in her Boston T-shirt and her TARDIS leggings.  They're sitting.  Waiting.

The severe level has been steadily increasing since I last posted, and early this morning it hit level five, the highest it can get.  My area is smack-dab in the middle of it all.

Now buckle up, because I'm about to use some meteorological jargon.  Picture the atmosphere above you as a slice of layer cake, a cake with at least three layers.  The plate the cake is resting on is equivalent to the ground where we stand, and each layer of cake is one mile of atmosphere.  Now suppose that here on the ground, the wind is blowing from the west.  One mile/cake layer up, the wind is blowing from the southwest.  Two miles/layers up, the wind is coming straight out of the south.  Three miles, the wind is coming from the southeast.  When the wind blows from different directions at different levels, it makes the atmosphere around it rotate, and that (in a very, VERY simplified form) gives tornadoes their get-up-and-go.  This atmospheric rotation is called helicity, and our local meteorologist said that the helicity in my neck of the woods is similar to the helicity on March 14th and 15th, when we had tornadoes coming out our ears.

Several of the local schools are either letting out early or have called off entirely, just as most of Alabama did in 2011.  Dunklin County's storm shelters are open...and look where citizens of Clarkton get to hide.

The high school gym.  Without going into too much detail, a gymnasium is one of the worst places to hide in a tornado.  I pray that nothing hits Clarkton High School, both because their shelter sucks and because I like Clarkton.  The people there are rural farm owners and blue-collar workers, much like the citizens of Malden, and I have a lot of respect for them.  

As to the rest of y'all...I don't know where this storm system is headed after it hits us!  I've got friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Alabama who are reading, so I'd advise that all of y'all keep a sharp lookout and do what you can to protect yourselves and your loved ones.  God willing, I'll be around to update y'all tomorrow.

Love,
RagingMoon1987

Big box

I knew Setsu-P had something en route to me from Alabama, but I wasn't expecting to receive it late on a Saturday.  Long story short, this package sat on my porch all night Saturday in rain and...well, a little wind, nothing like we got later!  In her letter Setsu-P told me that she's doing a gig at Goodwill and sees a lot of nice stuff thrifted, and that's pretty much what my box is.  On the very top were these cute little baby dresses, one with a long skirt and the other with bunny rabbits.

I'm hoping that Poppy Elizabeth will be able to wear that green number.  She's been wearing her pumpkin onesie since last fall.  Maybe one of my My Twinns can wear the rainbow dress.

Now to the meat and potatoes of the box.  The first doll I pulled was this one, with cotton candy hair and a very distinctive face.

I've seen that face before, but I'm drawing a complete blank ATM.  Here's her neck mark, which will be a tremendous help in identification. 

She's very well-made, so she's gotta have a name.  She smells like Heaven so I'd have guessed she was a Paola Reina doll's, but she's not.  A quick Google search revealed that her name is Mia, and Etsy has outfits available so clothes are on the way!

The next little doll reminds me of one Tam sent me a few summers ago.  He's a really cute little Mattel baby. 

The rest of the dolls are either Cabbage Patch Kids or Cabbie clones.  The only honest-to-God Kid in the bunch is this mermaid.  A quick Google search revealed her name to be Shelly Mermaid.  She's a Cutie, like Sammy Sloth, and according to the checklist she dates from 2021.

Shelly is my first green-eyed doll from the Jazwares/Wicked Cool Toys era, so I was surprised at how pretty her eyes are.  There's a little gold in there.

I really, really like this next doll, whom y'all got a glimpse of on Monday.  His tag says "Kuddle Love Kids" and he's super-cute.  He's got nice big feet and unique eyes.

I'm tentatively naming this little guy Clive Elliot.  Since both Clive and Mia turned up nekkid I jokingly called them my resident nudists.

Never fear, Clive!  You too will be getting clothes if I can find them.  He's about the size of a bean-butt Cabbie, give or take.

These last two made me LOL.  They're handmade and I presume that they're brother and sister.

Look at the boy's eyes!  I love green eyes.  

I think I'll name them George and Anna, after a brother/sister pair of teachers that died in a tornado in Iowa over a hundred years back.  I always wondered how the parents must've felt, receiving news that both their kids were miles apart and were killed in the same storm.

Mercy, if I get any more dolls Casa Pizarro is going to explode!  Or Mama's gonna kill me, one or the other.  Just the same this box was great fun.  I'm particularly happy with Clive and Mia and I'm looking forward to dressing them up, and I may redress George too while I'm at it.  His clothes are pretty big on him.  Anyway, thank you, Setsu-P, for sending this stuff!  They gave me something soft to hug when the weather got bad on Sunday, and they'll likely serve the same purpose tomorrow.  Our local meteorologist says that the wind field aloft is a lot more like the one we had on March 14th, so tornadoes are more likely.  Just fantastic.  Just because tornadoes fascinate me doesn't mean I wanna be IN one!

Love,

RagingMoon1987