Missour river flooding at Pierre

These are some photos I took of the stilling basin, emergency spill way and Oahe Dam on Wednesday May 25,2011. Pretty impressive amount of water flowing!

Thanks mail carrier!

I ordered some scrapbooking supplies the other day and was anxious for them to arrive. When I got home from work on Monday Dan informs me that he found my package in the ditch across the road! What!? The package is marked..."FRAGILE" "DO NOT BEND" this is put completely across the front and back of the envelope. So what did the fine mail carrier do with my envelope you ask? He had raise the flag on the side of the mail box and jammed the envelope in between it and the mail box putting a big tear through the envelope and into my scrapbooking paper! Of course it was a day the wind was blowing a gale, so not only did it get punctured, it got blown into the ditch as well. Good thing Dan spotted it. Wouldn't it have been better to put a card in the box saying I need to come to the post office to pick it up? And they wonder why no one wants to use their services!!

Happy Mother's Day!

Well, Mother's day didn't exactly turn out like I had hoped. I invisioned myself tucked away in my scrapbooking room working on some pages of my babies that are long over due to be finished up, while Dan puttered in the garden and all was well. But..instead I spent the morning at a local laundromat washing sopping wet clothes from a water heater leak! Let me just say, there are some pretty interesting characters at a laundromat on Mother's Day! Not having used a facility such as this for almost two decades, I'm sure that everyone in the place could smell the newbie! There were machines that could honestly hold up to 40lbs of clothes! Who brings 40 pounds of laundry? One character that stood out from the rest was a big guy who took great pride in folding his over sized undershorts! I do believe I am emotionaly scared for life! Then there were the "laundry pros" who swept in, put their clothes in machines, ran out the door, only to return precisely when the wash cycle ended and repeated the process for the drying cycle. There was also a pacer, who mades so many laps around the place I truly began thinking he was training for a marathon! As for me, I cowered in the corner and as soon as the wash cycle was finished I put my wet clothes in a basket and ran to my car and headed home to dry them, 40 minutes in that place was enough for me! What an interesting Mother's Day!!

Lingerie cookies

My daughter's best friend is getting married soon and this Saturday the girls are having a lingerie bridal shower. So I got asked to make cookies....I think they turned out pretty cute!