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here's a quick glimpse at spring life here. It's involved lots of plant sales, planting, cleaning, building, home improvements, running the dogs in and out whenever the rain dictates, knitting, reading, planning... we've got 30 boxes of solid bamboo flooring sitting in our living room. soon to be covering the concrete and replacing the worn out old carpet! today i'll build (i hope) a home for the dogs (more or less) and plant into my windowboxes (the ones walter built and my mom and i stained... they're still in the garage). today's walter's last day of the semester. his final final is done and he's just pulled in the garage! (i know, you all care very much :/)

Happy Spring everybody!

flood pics

here are a couple of pics I took of the flood. for your enjoyment...

(the access road beside the highway)


(on the access road, ppl pull their mobil homes and rv's to higher ground hoping not to float away)


(sign in front of access road)


(one part of access road)

(cows grazing on the levee)

MISS-ISS-IPP-I

I don't know if y'all watch weather channel or if it's news anywhere else but I do know that my mom's interested if no one else is. :)

The Mighty Mississippi has been at flood stage for almost two weeks now and I took a movie to a) show you just how far it's stretched passed its usual banks and b) to reassure my momma that the levee will indeed hold ;). Here ya go:

and that's all I have time for now... I just found a gardening book from the library that I'd left outside in the rain so I'm off to blow dry about 350 pages and hope that I don't get a big fat fine. :/ At least my garden is bursting with green!

p.s. i wrote this post two days ago but couldn't publish it until i found a way to reduce the size of the video. i'm happy to report that the book looks pretty good thanks to my blowdryer and a day or so of smooshing by two bricks. yay! (4.05.08)