Sunday May 8th 2011

Well, I know I went to church this morning. I am enjoying the church.  Guess that I would probably join this church.  Will wait for awhile before joining though, want to be certain.

Today is going to be a relaxing day, tomorrow I go in to have one of my teeth pulled.  Dr. Elizabeth really doesn’t want to do it and I’m not sure why.

I sat out in the yard today with Sparky.  We watched the fire burn and I may have dozed a little…

For some reason Sparky thinks that when I sit in a lawn chair outside his place is in my lap.  We spent a couple hours out there watching the fire burn and smolder.  Guess he enjoyed it also.

Went back to church tonight, almost missed it.  It was almost time for church to start when I came back in the house.  Guess I need to start wearing my watch.

We had a nice quiet evening, nothing exciting happened so guess I will stop with this one…I’m getting caught up!!!  Night Y’all…

Saturday May 7th 2011

WOW!! I sure have been procrastinating!!!  Actually this is Wednesday so I haven’t posted my blog for five days, give or take…  Now I have to try to remember what happened today.  I know I went to work this afternoon but what I did this morning  not real sure about that.  I did take a picture of the neighbor boy Jackson.  He is about three years old, maybe four and he is a character.  He befriended Linda first, he wasn’t real sure about me but now he is very neighborly!

He is really a cute kid, likes to visit.  He likes Linda and he comes over to visit with her so she gives him little treats like crackers, iced tea etc.  I think his parents have a hard time keeping track of him because he likes to go visit.

I got a picture of the fields, they look a little different, they aren’t flooded anymore but look kind of like mud!

The field in the background is still pretty muddy but the front field still looks good, it didn’t really flood.

Well, work went well, the books at the end of the day have come out perfect which for me is amazing.  I get a little careless and make mistakes which takes a lot of time trying to figure out where I made the mistake.

I’m going to close this blog and get ready to write tomorrows…Night Y’all..

Friday May 6th 2011

 

Well, this morning I get to go to the dentist.  Elizabeth Priggel is her name. I’ve been to her before, actually for the same tooth about two years ago. I wanted it pulled then but she said that it was OK and I just needed an anti biotic to  get rid of the infection.  Well, same tooth and it is hurting, not bad but hurting.  I have taken the anti biotic she prescribed and feel great now. I wonder if she likes pulling teeth??? This is Dr Priggel..

 

She didn’t really want me to take her picture especially after I told her I was going to put it in my blog.  Oops… To late…

This is Amanda her assistant.

They are very nice but Dr Priggel sure doesn’t seem like she wants to pull my tooth.  She wants me to go to an oral surgeon and I asked what he would do different and she said maybe put me to sleep and I said no thank you.  I will let you do it.  Have an appointment for Monday morning.

Spring is here and I have seen this little bird twice now.  I sure doesn’t move very much…

It is kind of a cute little bird, not sure what kind it is but I think it is just getting used to life on the outside!

Well, to work today. The rush season is over and things have quieted down. It wasn’t all that bad anyway but it is slow now.

The water is starting to recede and I saw a dove with an olive branch in its mouth!!   Not really, just kidding but the water is receding quite nicely.  If I had plants I could probably plant my garden.  I don’t have my tiller either. Oh well, maybe next week.

When I got home from work I had supper with Linda and then figured it was time to start a fire.  Have lots of wood to burn…

Not a real good picture but it is burning, not like I would like it, but it is burning.  I spent a couple hours out here loading up the wood as high as I could get it.  Hope it is still burning in the morning….I’m tired to guess I will go to bed…..Night Y’all…

Thursday May 5th 2011

Here comes another beautiful day, a little cool again but the sun is shining and I think it may get warmer.

Today at work I am mowing again.  I will mow all the RV sites (58) and around the outside of the campground.  This is a pretty good job, all the picnic tables have to be moved so I don’t get tired of sitting.  Well, I couldn’t mow all 58 sites the last seven sites are still to wet to mow.  Maybe next week.  Eight of the sites I mow with a push mower.  Takes a lot of energy to do that.  Got done pretty early so I thought that I would try to weed eat the sites I didn’t get last time besides I still have an hour and a half before quitting time.  The weeds and grass are so wet it sure makes a mess of my pants and boots.  Guess that will be OK until we can spray “Roundup”.  A lot of places we can’t weed eat because of the fence being white and the grass green and the green stains the white so Roundup is the answer in those areas.  The wind has been blowing to hard to spray though.  Makes a mess when the wind blows the spray where you don’t want it.

Linda fixed pork burgers last night, excellent, and tonight hamburgers, very good but I think I like the pork burgers better.

Got my new computer today, spent about two hours getting it set up and trying to download Skype, that has to be the hardest program to download that I’ve ever tried downloading!  It was almost bed time before I finished.  I did get to talk to Bren, and Linda thanked her for the flowers she sent her for mother’s day.  I will take a picture of them…

I have no idea what kind they are but they sure are pretty.  I will take more pictures when they open up…..Night Y’all…

Wednesday May 4th 2011

The sun is shining and a little cool but it is going to be a gorgeous day!  I go into work at 9AM this morning and supposedly will be mowing.  Not sure because it is still very wet.

Well, I am mowing and I am mowing the spots I can get through without sinking in.  Well, I tried to anyway, I got stuck in the mud twice!  First time wasn’t to bad but the second time I had to go get a 2x4 and kind of lift the tractor out.  The front end sank up to the axle and the rear just spins so I had to pry and lift and try to move it out of the muck and mire.  I got it but it took about an hour of prying to get it out.  I moved on to dryer areas, most are still pretty wet but I did get a lot mowed.  When Grant got there he didn’t have a lot left to do but he mowed for awhile.

Got this picture of one of the chicks up on the bar.  First time I’ve seen one up there.  They are growing fast!  He hasn’t built a coup for them yet, he keeps saying he has to get one built!

Well, not a lot going on tonight, I am dirty and tired so will take it easy.  Got a picture of the sunset.  Thought it looked very pretty…

Looks nice, kind of like an ocean or lake sunset, to bad it is flooded farm land.

Good night Y’all….

OK my computer isn’t scrolling so if I made some mistakes in what I’ve written I can’t read it to see what I’ve done wrong….

Tuesday May 3rd 2011

Well, it is still cloudy but not raining and looks like over in the West that it may be clearing off!!  Sure hope so, we could use a little sunshine to pick up our spirits.

The longer the day rolls on the more blue sky we see and the sun has even peaked out a couple of times.  The wind is still blowing out of the North and it is pretty chilly but may warm up somewhat today. 

I go into work today at 1PM and I haven’t really done much of anything this morning except Linda gave me a haircut, not like the last one, but a really nice one.  She didn’t make any mistakes this time, well, not that I can see anyway and that’s what counts right???

Work will probably be pretty easy today, the exit ramp on I55 Northbound is closed, flooded, and will probably discourage a lot of people from stopping.  I know that I had to go a couple of miles out of the way to get to work.

I had checked out the price of cement for a shed or garage for the camper. I don’t think I will be cementing the floor.  I figured it would take about sixty four yards of cement and at about $90 a yard I think I may gravel it or maybe keep it as a garden!!  I do need a spot to park the camper though and may changed my mind this Fall.

Not a lot going on tonight, had a good supper and going to relax and take it easy.  My computer is kind of giving me fits, not sure if I’m touching a wrong key or what buy in the middle of a sentence it goes somewhere else then I have to correct the mistakes.   I have ordered a new computer so maybe this one is getting even.  The new one will be used mainly for Skype and this will still be used for everything else. Sound like a plan?  Well hopefully everything will work out OK…Night Y’all…

Monday May 2ns 2011

Guess I don’t have to say it, it has rained most of the night and is still raining, not hard right now but raining.  It is very cool with the wind out of the North about ten MPH.  I thought about going out to the garage to straighten things up a bit but when I went out it was just a little to chilly and Sparky didn’t really want to be out there.  The roof hasn’t leaked yet and I guess this has been a pretty good test, we’ve had about six inches of rain since I fixed it.  There is a little leak, just a few drops, just enough to make a little wet spot, better than before though.

I decided as long as I couldn’t go outside I may as well bake some bread. I was getting hungry for regular white bread…

They turned out pretty good.  We tried a slice, and that ended up being our lunch, well, we had two slices.  I sure like home made bread!  To bad it isn’t very good for you.

We didn’t do anything the rest of the day, it just rained all day, then rained some more. 

On the news tonight they decided to blow a levee to relieve the pressure on some other spots around Cairo IL and Wycliffe KY.  They were supposed to do it between 10PM and Midnight.  We were watching the news and they had the camera at the spot where it was supposed to go and with no announcement it went.  I think they said they were going to use nine thousand pounds of explosives!  About a minute later our trailer started shaking and the noise hit us.  It was louder here than on the TV and we are about 20 – 25 miles away!!  Couldn’t tell it it did the job but with that kind of explosion it must have done the job, maybe that is what an earthquake feels like.  I was amazed at the shaking it did here.

I figured that I would be shaken awake during the second one sometime in the early morning hours but I slept through the night.  Guess I’m getting a little ahead of myself.  Guess that is about all for now, Night Y’all…