

A tale of the ongoing life that lies before me and the past that has defined who I am today.


A view of the cannons facing the battleground.
This is the monument to the Illinois troops. The park was celebrating it's 100th anniversary and had re-en actors there. They fired off a cannon that about scared the crap out of us, the ground rocked. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see it because we were around the corner at the battlefield.| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. | |
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The lady in one of the stores told me of a tornado that hit in 1953 and ripped thru her (wasn't hers then) store. She then showed me a picture of the damage it had done to the store itself. It seems that the tornado just sat down right in the center of this shop and tore the inside of it up.
This is just an alley way next to the stores. If you were to keep walking down this alley and a bit further down you would run smack dab into Ole Man River. The cat is crazy. I promise it about took an act of congress to get her off my side of the bed. Then she got mad and started pestering the dog who is scared of her. Miss Katie Scarlett is a fussy kitty cat but we love her anyway.
now that I look at these socks they looks different from each other. I made them from the same pattern and followed it the same and look at the difference. Strange if you ask me. One looks like an elephant sock and the other looks well.... normal.
Mom this picture is for you. There is your boy.
It is called Chicken with roasted tomato's and olives and this will become one of my favorite recipes. You can see the wine I love to drink a really good Merlot that is also imported from Italy. As you can see I have a thing for Italy, one of these days I will get to travel there. We are actually looking at possibly going in 2008 with Gary's niece and her husband. I don't know if I could contain myself if that were to come true.
Well, it is late and I want to go knit some before I have to go pick up my son from the school. His football team played at Ole Miss today for the kick off to the football season here.
Ciao!
Dakota has a place under his eye where one of the cats smacked him and it has caused a skin tag of sorts. Weird!! The vet doesn't seem to think its anything worth worrying over. I can't wait to try out the SLR on the kids and see the cool things I can do with it. I love taking pictures and have always wanted to be better at it. I work with a girl who is really good at it and I wish she would use the talent. She says she is going to teach me!!!