The Ark

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Rob, I've just got to say you must be racking up lots of brownie points in the husband-and-best-friend department. Talking Angie down after work, even though it leaves you emotionally drained. Fixing dinner though you'd rather be out doing some target "work". Angie is one lucky woman -- but you already know that.

Here's yer sign:

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That was sweet BC!

Of course now his hat won't fit anymore. :)

Heads up for the locals:

An Atlas V launch from Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida is scheduled for Thursday afternoon in a 2:46-4:46pm EDT time window. The launch vehicle will have three smoke producing solid rocket boosters.

The latest forecast is for 80% favorable launch weather conditions.

You can find current status updates and live launch coverage at

Spaceflight Now | Atlas Launch Report | Mission Status Center

OK, I've had enough fun for one day, need to get up early again in the morning, still have 30 bags of brown mulch to go, have a great night and I will see you tomorrow!

Good Morning Everybody!

65* in Macon this morning, 95% humidity.

Can you say cool wet air?

Going to be a busy day, will check in later.

Passing shower. Forecast for rest of week suggests more dribbles. No complaints.

We had the Christening for the grand daughter on Sunday. Following the ceremony at the church, St. Stephens, where her parents were married, we went to the maternal GP's. Opah said he wanted to show me something in the garden. I had sent him an NWS std rain gauge in ml. He had not installed as of Jan.'12 . It was mounted on a ladder about 5 ft off the ground. It had about 30 ml of slightly off color fluid in the small cylinder. He emptied the tube into two glasses and said "Prost". See, he said for today it rains champagne. Nice vintages.
Lot's of kids, food, beer, wine, family and friends,

The Church goes back 10th century. The "new " one was started in the 14th. In the 40's, the 8th AF took out a large part of the area including the church. During the next 40 years it was substantially restored and its new stain glass windows are an art treasure. Beautiful backdrop in the nave for the welcome of a beautiful lady .

Good Afternoon, Rob!

Wish it was sunny and warm enough to be able to use our gas grill again. It was pretty amazing to have been able to take it out and use early, mid-April, during an unprecedented period of 91F and 80ish degree days.

We're currently making up for a much warmer/drier than usual winter and early spring with a week of gloomy, chilly and intermittently rainy stuff. Thankfully, no real hard core rainfall just enough to begin replenishing the ground and dampen our spirits a bit. We still have a way to go, but it's a start and, thankfully, has also helped to keep the pollen count more at bay. Brutal this year!

I saw where parts of Florida really got quite a soaking some days ago. Hope you and others weren't too affected or in need of life rafts. These days, it appears to be all or nothing at all. Hard to keep up with these extremes.

Hope you have a decent Thursday, are perked by a few more cups of coffee and thoroughly enjoy those Brats!

"sometimes women just need to vent and to know that someone cares enough to listen"

You have just proven you know more about women than 99% of men. Angie is one lucky lady.

There is one caution about Attaboys you may not have realized:

One "aw shit" wipes out all the Attaboy points you've earned in the past year and you have to start all over again.

Post 360:

Well kudos to y'all. Bull's Eye. This is the Gothic Church version. The earlier Romanesque was lost in a fire. So was its replacement some 67 yrs. ago. The windows were contracted in 1973 between the Pastor and the French Artist. His family had emigrated from Imperial Russia before the revolution. The rest of the windows are as blue but contain less of the post impression drawings found in the nave. The Master did not live to see His work completed in 1995. My photos will have to wait. The works contain some intricate detail, and are as mentioned earlier, a fitting solution for a French-Jewish artist to work in a German Church to restore a Church bombed to smithereens by Yanks et., al.

The theme of the Artist was Peace.

Our ceremony included Yanks, Germans, Poles, Bosnians and the French with others. Peace was an an observer not only between the former combatants but also the divided families present. Many folks were brought together for the first time in six years or more by a beautiful little lady. May she continue to work as a basis for love for our loved ones.

Wish we could share the feeling but as we say sometimes, " You had to be there".

Afternoon Rob: My latest comment showed up just now so it would seem my WU blogs are updating. I could not log in on another computer at about noon, though, and there were confusing messages: "error" and "success" when I tried to upload a photo.
Edit: Yup, there is a problem with the page updating here too just now.

Had a non stop day myself, kids and grands were over for dinner tonight, I made chicken pad thai with spring rolls, even the grand kids liked it!

House is quiet now, think I'll take a nap. :)

Another early start in the morning.

Have a great evening.

Yeah, the index page shows you at 364 comments and last comment 3 hrs ago.

Unless we are trapped in the Twilight Zone
I think I just made two comments that don't show on the index page. :)

Pretty weird just loosing blog updates - imagine how we'd be fuming if the whole WU went down or (Bite my tongue) the internet.

I know where Swampy has been.

Morning Rob:
I dunno if I'd sleep more without the internet but I might read a book or get to work earlier.

OK, here is a strange little tidbit.
Before I get started, let me say that I very well know that I am a Storyteller, as was my Father before me, and his Father before him.

This is not one of my stories, I am not making this up. It happened to me at 0715 hours this morning.

I woke up early, made the coffee, made the joke about Swampy, and then SugarBear woke up early, so I took her a cup of coffee in bed like I do every morning. I had intended to stay up and be out in the yard spreading the last 20 bags of brown mulch by 0730.

I made the mistake of going back to bed and fell asleep. SugarBear got up and made herself some cereal like she does every morning and sat in her lazy girl chair in the living room. At approx 0715 I had a wild and crazy dream.

I was in a Post Office truck with a mail carrier named Ellen driving on a two lane rural mountain road near an unknown city in an unknown state. Behind us headed in the same direction we were going was a Semi rig. Down the hill going in the opposite direction was another Post Office truck.

All of a sudden, Ellen rams on her brakes as a large Tornado crossed the road ahead of us going from the right side to the left side. As I looked back right through the postal truck as if it was made out of glass I saw the Semi ram on his brakes as he saw the Tornado causing his trailer to partially jack knife accross the road in front of the postal truck that had just passed us causing him to ram on his brakes and slide to the left almost all the way around in front of the Semi so that we were all now facing the same way.

While I was looking at the Semi I saw another Tornado cross the road behind the Semi going from the left side of the road to the right side so I knew that there were actually 2 Tornados. I looked up, again right through the metal roof of the postal truck and saw that all three of us were under a huge tornadic wall cloud system that was turning counter clockwise.

I know what the NWS says about getting out of your vehicle and laying in a low lying ditch. We were on a mountain road with straight dropoffs on both sides. But that wasn't it. Somehow, I knew that if all three drivers would put the pedal to the metal, they could clear the system safely before both Tornados came across the road and nailed us. I don't know how I knew, I just knew.

So I yelled DRIVE ELLEN, DRIVE!!!

Then I woke up. No, I don't know what happened next.

I prayed that the Lord would give them all wisdom and keep them all safe.

I walked out to the living room and SugarBear says to me: "What the hell were you just yelling about?"

So I told her about the dream just as I just told you. She didn't say a word to me. She just gave me that look you would give your 5 year old who just told you a big whopper while standing over your Grandmothers priceless crystal vase broken on the floor while holding his little rubber football in his hands. :)

Let me say at this point that in the 65 years and 3 months that I have lived on this planet I have never had the gift of premonition, and I have never had a dream like this.

I must admit that it will be interesting to watch the news for the next couple of days to see if two mail carriers and a Semi driver survived a close encounter of the third kind with a twin pair of Tornados.

Really interesting if the driver of the first postal truck was named Ellen. :)

SOME DREAM RTL!:
Tloml thinks she has some "Second Sight" and I have come to agree. She works "Palliative Care" and the "clients" tend to live or die within her guessed time frame. She has consistently timed recent terminations of a number of old friends - because of her experience and nature they either call on her or she checks them out if she hears serious reports.
We will certainly be watching for news about postal vans and tornadoes named Ellen.

Hi ycd!

Tlomi must have a gentle heart and a very loving nature,
Palliative Care can be a rough job on most people.

I have known people who had that gift,
but I have never been one of them.

Oh sure, Swampdog has a new girlfriend,

and has totally forgotten about his Buds.

Aah, romance, I think I remember what that was like. :)

test

ok now

Quoting RobDaHood:
OH - Kay!!!

RTL,
Don't worry.
That's the sort of thing that happens when you fall asleep thinking about rabbits swirling round and round the drain and down the pipe. I'm surprised your mail uniform didn't include a large hat and that you didn't realize the semi driver was named Alice. Did you happen to notice if the other mail truck was driven by a guy with big fuzzy ears? Did your coffee cup turn into a tea cup. What about the apple fritter?

Just another day in WUnderland!
(you did realize that Wonderland is Wunderground didn't you?)

Cute. And you are hereby awarded "The Tongue". :)

Quoting RobDaHood:
Awww Man!
Not the tongue!
I carefully crafted that post to make you laugh!

I did laugh, you got the tongue because I laughed my coffee with cream and sugar all over the keyboard!!! yuk yuk yuk :)

Movie night tonight, will check back in later.

HOOT !!
Just back from 4 days in a Very Wet forest...
Had to look at the SatLoops to see what had caused us such Grief.
I can tell you, that the pictures don't lie! It poured.....

Might be back later, Depends.....

Depends? Was it really so wet that you had to wear those? :)

Har, Har, Har Yous guys!
In fact: "Depends" is a very good answer for many a question.
Like: "How do you laugh from a keyboard?"
I don't know but LOL and ROTFLOL are so passe.
#380 RTL: she puts up with me. case closed

391 - Ylee - "Depends"

3 point slam on Pottery!!!

You are hereby awarded "The Score"

******************************SCORE************** ****************

393 - ycd - "How do you laugh from a keyboard"

Rob found this little guy years ago.

It makes me laugh just watching it. :)

Morning Everybody!

Hey, I found Swampy and his helper:

Hey Rob, does this cat look familiar to you?

yuk yuk yuk

OK, 67.6*F in Macon this morning, 95% humidity.

Brown Mulch is finished as of yesterday, YEA.

This morning I need to dig up two hedges in the front of the house.

SugarBear has some sort of "plan" for that area.

No, I don't know what the plan is yet.

I am just Manual Labor remember. :)

Have a great weekend!

Hey Bud, you were not here when I started typing!

Wow, the cats do look close don't they.

Hope your back is feeling better today.

Best thing for you is rest this weekend.

When mine goes out I'm done for days. :(