We lost our power for like 2 days in the hot summer. I remember taking a lot of COLD baths to cool us off. That was miserable!! Girl I know you probably took an extra long hot shower today. Just one question though. Did you look like a prune when you got out?? LOL totally teasing of course!! The lake seems to be receding in some parts so this is a good thing. Here is another shot I took this afternoon. My southern charm scored me this shot. Tennessee state troopers are guarding this spot and if you haven't figured me out by my text yet well you will have no doubt after you here this to how I truly am. We drive down by the road closed signs and I roll down my window and yell out the window. "Can I get out and look at the water?" state trooper said "No" I asked "Even to take a picture" he shook his head then I asked "Can I hand you my camera and you take a shot for me?" While handing my camera out the window while cheesing a big huge smile. The state trooper laughed shook his head and motioned for me to come up there and said "just make it fast" smiling the entire time!! Hee Hee And here is the shot!! This is the river and I am standing on the top of the levee. The river normally is about 100 to 150 feet from the furthest utility pole on the right hand side. I was dumbfounded when I saw in person how close the water was to the top!! Now I know for sure why they are guarding this thing so tightly!!

Thanks for asking. We were lucky in the southeastern part of the state not to have any tornadoes. There was hail in the county just to the west of us and in the county northeast of us, but all we got here was some rain, and not really much of that. The central part of the state had some TERRIBLE damage, though! Sherry

Thank you all for the well wishes. This working nights gets in the way of a lot of things, and that was the delay in my checking in...That and a new system and a secretary who decided to take off, so I had a brand new system I had to work with (which I actually kind of liked when I got used to it) and I had to do the secretaries job as well as mine to do. I had no spare time for quite a while there. Eighteen years is long enough to work nights. Rita, I've always lived where there was a tornado "season". The closest I have actually been to one was one block...Plenty close enough. Friday night there were three people killed by the storm that had passed south of to us...It did only tree and power line damage here (I wish it had blown a few more limbs out of the big oak tree in back). The town where it hit is only 50 miles from us. Another one hit in Tuscaloosa which is much closer, so it was not a good night, but we were truly blessed. kay

It is not so beautiful here in central Indiana today. It is cloudy and only up to 37 right now. I rode along with Amber and Alyssa for her doctor's appointment and then we went out to eat lunch. Alyssa is to start drinking whole milk and give up baby food except for the cereal. She is a petite little one year old. It has been a good day, but the weather is chilly and cloudy. Sue