Fences....

outside of town....
Zaeune ausserhalb der Stadt....

So near....

and yet so far.....

So nahe dran und doch nicht zu erreichen....

Flowers

to welcome the weekend.
Happy Saturday !!!

Lunch

by the Mississippi in Cape today. Water level is very high right now....Lots of rain lately.
I had to have my car serviced at Honda...routine maintenance and new breaks ( over $ 300.00 worth ) ..
Nice crisp and sunny day...

Heute hatte ich Lunch am Mississippi. Der Wasserspiegel ist z.Z. ziemlich hoch, wie man sieht. Viel Regen in letzter Zeit.
Mein Auto musste in die Werkstatt in Cape ...Oelwechsel, neue Bremsbelaege etc.....

Another hard day

at work today....

Rain, rain....

brief but heavy rain and winds yesterday...

Any idea ?

where this might be?

Working hard

this afternoon ...
I worked outside, trying to get the pool ready to open....
still a very long way to go...
have to scoop millions of leaves off the pool cover....
what a mess....
they seem to increase not decrease....
the water I pumped off today will be added again tomorrow....
we have rain and thunder storms in the forecast for tuesday....again....
oh yes, so much fun....

Happy Mother's Day

to me from Julia and Erik.
what a nice surprise when I came home after midnight...
after having worked 16 plus hours...

8 surgeries....
I had a message on my answering machine....
something, something didn't understand.....is now sitting on your front door step...
I looked....
and there were these beautiful flowers...
thank you so much Julia and Erik....

Ueberraschung zum Muttertag....

dieses Blumenkoerbchen fand ich gestern vor der Haustuer, als ich nach mehr als 16 Stunden Bereitschaftsdienst und 8 OPs (nach Mitternacht ) nach Hause kam. Vielen, vielen Dank liebe Julia und lieber Erik....

Photo of the day

80 Years Ago Today

This was in the local paper today....

In 1927 Poplar Bluff was almost completely wiped out by a tornado. Over 100 people were killed .....
very devastating. Hopefully we won't see another tornado like that....

Genau heute vor 80 Jahren, 1927, wurde Poplar Bluff von einem Tornado fast voellig zerstoert. Ueber 100 Menschen kamen dabei um ..... Viel war nicht uebrig von Poplar Bluff.
Zur Erinnerung, stand heute ein Bericht darueber in der Zeitung.

Man kann nur hoffen, dass sowas nicht nochmal passiert.

This afternoon

Men at work

then later...storm clouds ....
heavy thunderstorm with hail...
the electricity was off for at about 30 minutes

Heute Nachmittag hatten wir ein schweres Gewitter mit Hagel....
und Stromausfall...

Last trip to Cape

took place the end of April...
the Mississippi is still there...

Ausflug nach Cape, Ende April...
wollte nur mal sehen, ob der Mississippi noch da ist...

Riverfront Cape

Visitors in the yard

Tornado Warning in Stoddard County

This is from the KFVS 12 website.

Tornadoes Spotted

By: John Dissauer
Thunderstorms moved through parts of Southeast Missouri and Western Kentucky Thursday afternoon. One of the thunderstorms produced at least one tornado in Southeast Missouri.
A Tornado Warning was issued by the National Weather Service at 4:35 p.m. for Stoddard County. A number of Severe Thunderstorms were issued for counties in Southeast Missouri and Western Kentucky.
Thanks to Wes Rodgers from Dexter, Missouri for the pictures he emailed to the Heartland StormTeam Thursday evening. He tells us that there were two tornadoes and they were located about 250 yards off of Highway D and 5 miles from Highway 25 in Stoddard County. The tornadoes were moving north.
According to the National Weather Service office in Paducah, Kentucky a trained spotter reported a rope tornado at County Road 751 and County Road 736. The spotter reported that the tornado touched down two times and it was on the ground for 2-3 minutes each time.
No damage was reported to the National Weather Service.

Heute Nachmittag wurden diese Tornadoes ca 25 Meilen von uns gesichtet.

You know you are living in 2007 when....

Found this on another blog just now and just had to share it.

YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when...
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you a re going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list AND NOW U R LAUGHING at yourself.