At our house now

We had planned to get Lorelei this past weekend, but it didn't work out. But yesterday did. We met Sarah in the middle, transferred Lorelei's carseat, etc and headed home.
We were about two-thirds of the way home when she told me to take pictures of this big cloud. I took a few. They were pretty.
Then I just held the camera up, on autofocus and aimed towards her seat, or what I was hoping was her seat. The above shot is the first shot...I just love it. You might have to click it to see the gleam in her eye...
She sang a big lot of the way home...the ABC song, Itsy, Bitsy spider, even made up a version of the Mamaw Spider going up the water spout, and and I love Mamaw With All My Heart little tune.

Needless to say I will be pretty well occupied for two or three days.
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We actually had thunder and lightning about 3:00 a.m. and a little bit of rain. There is actually a mud puddle across the street! First time I have seen one of those things here in a long, long time. I don't think we got a lot, I couldn't stay awake to listen, but at least we got some.

Another old implement

This is another implement from Patton's Corner...Roger thinks it might have been a plow for digging potatoes and when I google the term for pictures, I think he just might be right.

Still hot here, but not the 100 degrees....and supposed to fall down til the highs are in the low 80's by this weekend. There is a chance for rain starting on Thursday night. At least that is what they are saying right now.

I got almost 4 quarts of tomato juice today...a complete surprise to get that much...but happy to have it.

Great Blue Heron

We saw this guy the last time we went fishing...he was up the stream from us, and across on the other side. He stayed there the whole time we were there which was probably 45 minutes or so.
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We have been out and gone most of the day...running some errands and to Best Buy...and we stopped and ate. It has just been one of those days where I did not accomplish a single thing. At least in the work department.

I have been reading a book called The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. It is about the Dust Bowl, concentrating on the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle area. This happened during the Great Depression, for those of you who aren't familiar with it. I have enjoyed reading it...have wondered how I would have handled the living situation then.

It was horrible living conditions. No one could get away from the dust. Even though people tried to cover up any little opening...dust found its way inside their homes. Inside their bodies even. So many people died with dust pneumonia. Babies as well as adults.

In that area, tons and tons and tons of top soil was blown away. Some of it even made it to the east coast and even on out into the Atlantic Ocean. If you want to see probably the worst dust storm of it all, click Black Sunday. That is a page of images I got by googling Black Sunday dust bowl, and then clicking on images.

As I read it I came across the name Arthur Rothstein....a photographer. I first googled his name and then clicked images...which showed enough till I knew I wanted to find a collection of them. And HERE is where I ended up at...have wasted a lot of time today just looking at the photos there and still not through them.

Anyway, if you like B&W photography and old photos, it is a good place to go...it has more than just the Rothstein collection...but that was what I spent my spare minutes on.