Sunday May 1st 2011

Guess what??? It’s raining like crazy!  Guess that isn’t new but we sure have gotten a lot of rain.  I think in the last eight or nine days it must be close to twenty inches.  It is taking a long time to soak up and drain off.

Went to church this morning at Fellowship and got a couple of pictures.  I mentioned Harold and Becky, I finally took their pics…

They lived at the campground while they were building their new home.  With this much rain they have water in their basement.  Guess it could be worse.   Becky has been teaching the Sunday School class and has been doing a very good job!

This is a picture of Ken and Barbie.  I worked with Ken for a couple of years at the Miner Police Department.  Ken and Barbie are very nice, Ken is a card.  He has a few physical problems but I guess that’s what happens when we get older…

Barb is kind of funny the first picture I showed her, she wasn’t smiling and then I showed her this one, she said to throw the other one away.. well, I will probably keep it.

Church and Sunday School were very interesting. Had a good sermon.

Well, I took another picture of the fields…

This is actually our ditch which is full of water, again.  I’m not sure how many times the ditch has filled up but this is probably the fullest, and I think I took this picture tomorrow (Monday). Anyway, wish we could give some of this water to Texas!  They need it.  We will probably need it come August.

Not much going on tonight, went to church and he preached on Revelation which was very interesting.  This was about the Angel reaping the earth of the unfaithful.  Makes you want to be ready doesn’t it???

It is supposed to storm tonight, again, so I think I will call it a night, or day and say Night Y’all….

Saturday April 30th 2011

Looks like a nice day today but it is supposed to rain again.  Just what we need.  It is a little cool this morning but I have things I want to do.  My garage roof still leaks and it is dry enough now to get up there and put some silicone on the cracks.  Hopefully it will quit leaking. We will see.  I caulked up the cracks first then got the lawn mower out and mowed the lawn and half of the neighbors.  His back yard didn’t look bad at all so I will get that later, next week.  The rain and warm weather, well, cool weather too, has made the grass grow like crazy!  Fertilizer may have helped a little.

I had to take a couple of pictures.  I think I may have put this first one in at one time or another but it is the flooding…

This next picture is out back with the dust blowing!!  Weird!

The clouds are rolling in, I imagine we will get the rain later on.

Work was pretty good today, Mark and Grant came in, probably to feed the chickens and to get his tractor.  He said that April was his second best month since he bought the place. There is a pretty good lull during the summer.  This isn’t a campground where you go to sit around a fire and sing songs.  This is mostly a transient park.  Stop for the night on the way home or something like that.  We have a lot of people here that work at the power plant during shut down and there was a couple a few years ago that stayed here for almost a year while they built their house.  I met them again at church.  I will have to take some pictures.  Back to work. I had a nice day today, not really a busy day but it was OK.  I don’t like it when it is quiet for an hour or so, that gets pretty boring, guess I should take a book to read.

We had left overs for supper, one of my favorite dishes.  We took it easy tonight.  Well, it did start raining this afternoon and at the park we got quite a few good showers.  When I got home and after supper I figured I should go out and check the garage to see it my patch job worked.  Guess it did, the floor is dry!!  Not sure how long it will last but for now it is working. 

Time to sign off and get some sleep…..Night Y’all……

Friday April 29th 2011

Beautiful sunny day today.  It is a little cool out but I think it is going to be a great day.

I have an appointment with the Dentist this morning.  Not looking forward to it but my tooth has an infection and doesn’t feel very good.  I know about what is going to happen, they will take an X-ray then tell me it is infected and then give me some anti-biotic to get rid of the infection, then I will have to come back to have it pulled.  Well, it worked almost like I said but when I come back she is just going to look at it then make an appointment to have it pulled.  My dentist back in Rock Falls would have pulled it that day. I kind of liked him, he didn’t mess around.

Well I stopped at the pharmacy and got my Z-Pac(?) and went on home.  The tooth bothered me a little yesterday but today it feels pretty decent.  I decided to split a little wood.  I think I split at least three pieces. The wood split quite well!  I don’t have much more to split but sure have a lot to burn.  One of these days I will get a fire started.

Went into work at one today and it started out OK then they started coming in.  A lady was in her car by the propane tank and I asked if she needed propane but she was waiting for three rigs to come in.  She had driven her car ahead of them.  I got her registered so I would only have two more to do, well, another one came in then the other two and they had the drive plugged.  The first one to come in was the slowest.  I checked in the other two before them so all this time the driveway was plugged.  If you have ever run a credit card machine you know it is hooked to a phone line right? Well, you can’t use the phone and the credit card machine at the same time.  I’ve never had this happen before but I tried to run a credit card and the phone would ring, couldn’t answer the phone and the machine wouldn’t work. Phone would stop ringing and the machine would dial then the phone would ring and this went on for about five minutes, guess I would have been ahead just to answer the phone.  Finally got them checked in and Mark parked them.  I actually kept kind of busy for the next couple of hours.  Oh, the first three rigs that came in, two were pulling some really unique vehicles… beautiful…

I guess this is why the lady was driving her car!

Well, the rest of the day went pretty smooth. Got all my cleaning done and then the bookwork went pretty good except for the guy that came in at closing to get a tank of propane filled.  Kind of messed me up a little, but not to bad.

When I got home Linda had fixed Mexican Spaghetti!  Love Mexican Spaghetti!!  When I get off at seven it gets dark pretty fast so I don’t have a chance to do much outside.  Maybe tomorrow I will be able to mow the lawn,  well, if it doesn’t rain. I don’t think it is supposed to but the weather is forecasting another four inches this weekend, give or take.

This should be a nice quiet evening, I know I will be kind of tired so will try to stay awake for the weather, kind of made it but dozed through some of the broadcast….Night Y’all….

Thursday April 28th 2011

Guess what???  The sun is shining!!!

The water is still rising and a couple of levees have broken and a lot more have breeched so the flood is getting worse, the Mississippi River and the Ohio Rivers are over flood stage and still rising.  If I’m not mistaken the Mississippi is going to crest at over twenty feet over flood stage.  The Corp of Engineers are contemplating blowing up some of the canals and that would flood about 130,000 acres of land!   HMMM!  I think I would think that over but they say the alternative, if it happens to break on it’s own, is to flood a couple hundred thousand acres.  Oh well, God is in control.

Work today went well, I mowed most of the day and only had a couple of mishaps, lost one of the deck wheels and it got pretty well chewed up. Then I couldn’t find the bushing for about an hour.  Found it about ten feet away from where the wheel was.  Then the bolts for the back wheels are shorter than the ones for the front wheels so I had to go buy a couple more then it went pretty good until I got to the push mower.  By the time I got done with that my knees were pretty sore.  I’ll take some Advil when I get home.

Getting home was a little different, I knew they had closed the road I usually take but didn’t realize they close it all the way back to I-55!  I made it home about 6;30 PM.  Linda fixed some salmon for supper.  That was really good.  We don’t have salmon except for the patties and this sure tastes a lot different!   I really like it, will have to get more of that.

Morehouse MO has been evacuated and now Canalou MO has been giving the order to evacuate and that is where Jim and June live.  He called later that night to let us know where they were.  They went to Sikeston to June’s sister’s home.  They will stay until he figures it is safe to head back home.  I turned the camper around and hooked up the tow dolly just in case.  You just don’t know and it is good to be prepared.

Linda is going to stay up tonight to watch the “Royal Wedding” and I am going to go to bed…..Night Y’all…

Wednesday April 27th 2011

Got up this morning and it looks like it could rain!!  I wondered what I would do at work today because I usually mow, at least until Grant gets out of school.

Well, Mark called about 8:30AM and said if I wanted to take the day off it would be OK because it looked a lot like rain.  He was right we did get some rain.  I got some picture of our yard and some ominous clouds!!

After the cloud above was just about where it is the wind shifted from South to North and the temperature dropped about five degrees.  We got a hard rain for about five minutes then the sun came out!!  Beautiful sunshine!!

I had been out trying to split some more wood when Linda told be about the storm in the pictures above so I had to stop and take pictures.  I did split two more pieces of wood but this wood kind of soaks up moisture.  When I started splitting the wood the water in the wood was amazing, kind of like a sponge.  It soaked up a lot of water!  I think when it warms up it will dry out though.

Anyway, we had some ham sandwiches for supper and took it easy the rest of the night.  I forgot, this is Wednesday I could have gone to church tonight!!  I think I must be losing it, forgot about church, well, I haven’t gone to church on Wednesday night since we got back from Texas!  I work Wednesdays and that kind of rules out church night.

Took it easy tonight and watched some HGTV, I still think that is interesting, I also watched some of the cooking channel, “Throw Down” with Bobby Flay.  That was interesting.

Rough day, better get to bed, Night Y’all….

Tuesday April 26th 2011

Seems like it has been raining for a long time. Well, guess it has, not forty days and nights but seems like it.  It does quit long enough to dry out a little and then it rains again.

I work in the office this afternoon.  It has slowed down somewhat and it gets a little boring but I guess I can handle that.

I started my cleaning at work and about half way through I saw a big motor home come in and figured I better get back to the office.  Before I got to the office another one came in.  They pretty much filled up the driveway.  I checked them in and before I finished parking them three more came in, they were traveling together.  One was still in Texarkana with problems with his coach.  I got them parked, very nice people…

They all went to Lambert’s together. There were ten people.  I didn’t get to talk to them after they came back and didn’t get a picture of them before they left.

I got a picture the other day when we went to Jim and June’s.  I thought that I would insert this now, probably should have done it earlier…

This is all farm ground.  Pretty well flooded but if it warms up and the sun comes out and the wind blows, as usual, they will probably be back in the fields in a week.  The drainage ditches are full and so is the Mississippi River that they flow into.  May take longer than a week.

The rest of the day at work went well, I think that they quit coming in about 4PM so I got my book work done early and was ready to leave at 7PM, right on time.

Linda had supper ready and we just relaxed the rest of the night.  Had a nice evening…Night Y’all…

Monday April 25th 2011

Guess what??  It’s going to be another rainy day.  It isn’t raining this morning but I’m sure it won’t be long.

The fields have water standing in them and the ditches are full.  I think the ground is pretty well saturated with more rain on the way.

We went over to Jim and June’s this morning.  Had coffee and donuts and just caught up on what is going on in their lives and our lives.  Like to get together with them once in awhile.  We like Jim and June.

Linda isn’t feeling very good and she has a Dr appointment this afternoon.  She is going to lay down and take a nap. Sparky did well in his cage while we were gone, not that we know for sure, but he is OK now anyway.

Linda’s appointment was for 3PM and we made it there a little early.  She got her hearing test done and the Dr said she as lost more of her hearing, probably from nerve damage.  She ordered new hearing aids and the Dr said the ones she has now must have been pretty good to last for nine years.  I sure hope the new ones do the trick.  I can tell her hearing is getting worse, she can’t hear a lot of what I say, well, maybe she doesn’t want to, do you think???

After her appointment we went to Wally World to get a few things.  I need ear plugs for mowing.  My ears have been ringing constantly for about four or five years now, I’m kind of used to it.

Sparky did well again in the cage.  Linda fixed a pizza for supper, DeGiorno, which was very good.  She forgot to take the cardboard off the bottom which made the crust a little soft but I liked it that way.

The TV is all about the coming storms.  I thought about taking an hour or so and mowing the lawn, not the ditch, it’s still full of water, but I think I could have mowed the lawn though.  It is really dark off to the West and they are talking tornados and hail and wind and lots of rain.  Well, it took awhile for it to get here but we got a LOT of rain.  Windy but not bad enough to wreck anything.

I think we may just take it easy again tonight.  I have been having problems with my right knee.  Not sure if it is bad but will have to make an appointment with a Dr to get it checked out.  I’m to young for a knee replacement!!  Anyway, will say….Night Y’all….