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Good morning everyone.

Mr. Murphy came to visit LeClaire, Iowa yesterday. The drought of the century.....corn fields so dry you expect to see popcorn popping directly from the stalks. Beautiful outdoor wedding. I start to get ready. Fresh out of the shower. I look outside at the Mississippi River and the skies are getting dark. No, can't rain today of all days. Blw dry my hair then notice trees are bent over half way and I can barely see the river. Walk to the window and it is raining so hard and then the lightening and thunder. Rain is in sheets, and in horizontal sheets. I just stand there in disbelief. It is so powerful, yet beautiful. Then I snap to. I'm standing in front of the window, wrapped in just a towel and a huge lightening bolt hits right out side. It scares me and my towel drops and the power goes out. Then the lightening continues to give a strob light show of me in my all together nothing to anyone that is watching. Yep, the whole town's power is out. How am I suppose to get dressed for a wedding in the dark??? I stumble and fell on said towel. Then remembered I had my little head lamp in my other bag from our outdoor week on Maine. Have you ever tried putting on makeup using a flashlight?? I was laughing so hard cuz all I could see was that face you make when you hold the flashlight at your chin to scare someone. I looked like a ghoul

Anyway, Managed to get makeup on, get into dress, find jewelry, shoes, etc. my DH had procrastinated about getting out the shirt he wanted ironed, so tough luck. That's what he gets for waiting till the last minute. With trusty flashlight we find our way down the hallway and staircase. The storm passes as we drove to the camp. At least 3" bathed those thirsty corn fields and soy beans in a short time. As the wedding guests arrived and the bride is ready to take her father's arm a beautiful rainbow, and cool breeze appears. The most perfect wedding a young couple could want. Bride was amazingly beautiful. I'll post pictures when I get them up to PB. Everyone have a safe and fun day. Aloha.

Good Morning ladies... I see you are up and at it soooo early Barbzee glad to have the stories... oh my Red glad no one had a camera outside at that moment... our minds can sure make a funny picture!! I am so glad the wedding was a huge success rainbow and all!
The outdoor picnic was so nice music was extra good because T was the DJ... they gave out tons of gifts... everyone seemed happy... T and I came back and watched some of the tigers game... I came home and put down my awning as storms threatened and shadow and I settled down...
This morning I woke to itchy eyes and felt like a cat... hope I did not get any of the poison ivy that is in the woods... the only way I could have gotten it was from the wind or from Shadows fur... put cold water on my face and drops in my eyes so it should be ok later...
Today is a laid back day... I will miss church but that did not stop me from having my devotions... am using the book Jesus Calling... a friend that has cancer gave it to me... very good for each day...
It will be cooler today after the storms only 80... wow that is great...
Echo take care of the hand...
Hope everyone has a restful day and enjoy yourselves...
Kathleen

GOOD MORNING SISTAHS!!!

At the moment it is really nice out there but I know that for sure it's gonna get hot and humid! YUCK!!! Says it's 77 right now and suppose to go to 84 with 60% chance of rain predicted for this afternoon, heat index will be 92. Humidity at 91%. Yep, gonna get sticky out there! ~sigh~

Working at my second cup of coffee here I think I will need more too. Slept 8hrs but still feel tired. The heat and humidity is knocking me out. Thank goodness for the window A/C unit. Gonna go to the clinic Monday morning to see about getting my BP scripts filled and to have my BP checked too. At least that's my plan at the moment. Got to get off my duff.

My hand isn't to bad at the moment. Still a tiny bit swollen but it's so much better than it was last night. Still a touch sore too. I still can't grip things the way I should so it just might be real interesting at work tonight!! I guess we shall see how it goes. If I can't hold onto the dishes or the pots and pans and manipulate my hand the way I should it's gonna be really hard to take care of the dishes. They will either have to send me home or put me into a different job for the night. They're gonna love that!!!!! NOT!

OK, off to read and see what ya'll have been up to. Hope everyone has a great day, has fun and of course does it all safely.

Love to all

Morning friends! I have procrastinated enough, today I've got to do some stuff in the house. Light stuff, vacuum , change cat box, take garbage out. But got to be done, then I can float in the pool maybe. Hi Ho, Hi Ho will be the song of the day.Have a good safe and fun day. Wendy

good morning ladies
am enjoying this early morning as its just very quiet in the house and the neighborhood, dogs are sleeping and the
swamp cooler just humming its tune. Coffee tastes good as its fresh, not warmed over left over from yesterday.
(yes, I admit, I save coffee and warm it up in the micro)
So, what shall I do today? Hopefully I'll get the cabinet hung, will need the guys help to do that and then roll in the
bar (its on wheels) and stand back and hopefully admire a totally functional kitchen. I just might even get in there
and cook, ya never know.
There are things in my room that need doing but my brain says....(get this) nooooooo, I might disturb the dogs.
I put off too many things with that excuse. Well, truth be told, its half way true. Things like vacuuming really
freak Gracie out so I have to put her in her kennel until I'm done but if she's sleeping in her little bed under the
desk, I feel bad to wake her up just to put her in her kennel so then the vacuuming doesn't get done. haha, broom
works and is much quieter but not as clean a job as sucking up all that dirt into one easy to empty canister. Then
of course there were the time I wanted to strip the bed but couldn't cause the girls were still sleeping. I guess I
cater to my girls too much, but at least they give back cause they lovvvvvvve their mommy
Time for another cup of coffee and then I'll get busy with the broom.
Ya'll have a great day

Morning! Watching tennis at the Olympics - do love watching two really fit guys running all over the court, y'know

We may get rain this morning. Mark has left the windows open on the Jeep tempting the gates - could be a gully washer LOL. And I'm keeping one eye out for Ernesto and what he's going to do this week. I think it's going to come in way south of us but I still need to keep an eye on it.

I've been playing with more photos from vacation and doing some more scrapping. I may post some more later.

Slept in this morning. Not a bad first night in the new house but my airbed is a little too "soft" so will have to inflate it more today. Lola spent most of the night sitting in the window watching for night creatures. Now she is under the bed after hearing the gals up and moving around some.

Got more stuff to put away and organize today but with all the storage areas, that shouldn't be too big of a project. Want to walk around the property and check it all out. It was so nice to listen to crickets all night. Haven't heard that for a long time. Love that sound! May go pick up some paint for this room. It is all white so it could use a little warm color in it, and they said it was OK to paint in here. Probably do a very pale green. Still need to get some furniture like a dresser and night stand and TV stand. My aunt has a nice dresser and night stand she's keeping at my dad's since she isn't using it, so he is gonna ask her if I can use it or buy it from her. Otherwise, I will look for some used furniture at a thrift store. I found a nice bedroom set on line but can't afford it right now.

Gotta call my new manager and set up a time to get my paperwork done before starting work tomorrow evening. My licence is now active so that is good. They scheduled me for evenings this week just in case my license didn't get renewed yet, since State Board doesn't come around checking in the evenings.

Had a lot of crazy wild "man" dreams last night! Haven't had dreams like that for a long time! Maybe I need to start looking for a boyfriend! (or at least a boy toy!)

Hope you all have a great day!

Barbzeee wrote:

OH OH before I forget ..it says, "You are to only use HIGH ENERGY SOAP...Now folks What in the world is HIGH ENERGY SOAP..new one on me.. Me Thinks this H E S is a bunch of bunk ! Maybe it's HES cause it sure don't move much when washing.. I mean no Swishing and a Swashing..hahaha...

Zeee, my washer is a front load, but the detergent I have to use if High Efficiency, never heard of High Energy, maybe that's special for you because of all your energy...or you're infusing your clothes with energy and they're gonna get up and walk by themselves!

I just went and turned on the fridge in the rv. We've been waiting till my Godson was born before heading out somewhere, Ronnie has been going stir crazy waiting. Then after Jaxon was born, we started watching Ernesto. Looks like he's gonna go south or at least that's the current prediction. I decided last night to just go ahead and plan on leaving for the coast tomorrow. We can keep an eye on the weather and come back early if we need to, throw a few more things in the rv and take off north.

This morning they have Ernesto going more South into Mexico. Don't know how much we can count on that. When we headed out to Florida Debbie was going West and the next morning it was going East.

I am familiar with the he laundry detergent because I had a front load washer. I don't know why they would recommend it for a top loader. My new set is Frigidaire and I really like them. My DH use to complain about how much noise the old ones made but you can hardly hear these. They have way more control choices than I will ever use but these were the ones on sale when I was looking. We always had GE and bought from a local store except for the piece of crap Maytag. When I went there this time the man tried to talk me out of a front load washer. He said that the front loaders smell because they mildew. I don't know why they would mildew more than any other. Maybe because the door closes tighter. The latch on the one I bought keeps the door open a crack unless you push hard on it. He just lost a sale. I wanted some I could stack and he wasn't going to talk me out of it.

I had the oven on for lunch and thought about making a pie but was too lazy to make a pie crust. It's a shame to be so lazy. I use to make a good pie crust but it's so easy to buy one.

Vickie, did they fix the fishing pier in Cameron that the barge ran into? I seldom go that way so have never seen the campground you talked about.

Martha

Acadianmom wrote:Vickie, did they fix the fishing pier in Cameron that the barge ran into? I seldom go that way so have never seen the campground you talked about.

Martha

Yes, Martha, they fixed the pier and opened it back up in June I think. Here is the pics I posted one time when we went down there. Sure wish there was shade there because it sure is hot, luckily there's always a breeze blowing.
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4557&p=53740&hilit=+cameron#p53740

VickieP wrote:...I decided last night to just go ahead and plan on leaving for the coast tomorrow.

OMG - who am I going to pick on if you're not around????

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mitch5252 wrote:

VickieP wrote:...I decided last night to just go ahead and plan on leaving for the coast tomorrow.

OMG - who am I going to pick on if you're not around????

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Not to worry, I should have a signal on my iPad or phone, Dufus!