marathon runner Ed

here is Ed in his brightly colored track suit.

Here is sporting his marathon number 9.

There is Ed, running further than you can.

Last Sunday I was planning on rooting on my Sister and BFF as they ran a half marathon. There was only a tiny problem, Tropical Storm of IKE got in the way. So little Ed slept in and went out to breakfast with the warriors instead.

Rain

Rain was born, raised and currently lives in trees. She respects nature.

Rain has never set foot on the ground. Her boyfriend Nehemiah comes to visit her when he is off duty.


Rain has learned to climb to the tips off branches to study and nurture new specimens.


Rain has learned how to jump from tree to tree to get where she needs to be.


This is just an awesome picture I took of Rain demonstrating her jumping skills.

The Great Flood of 2008

The water has arrived.
I don't know where you have been, but in the midwest it has been raining and raining hard constantly for the last few days. Many of the local schools were canceled because the country roads were closed due to road closings.
I have a friend who's apartment is essentially in a basement and he had 5 inches of standing water and moved out and found a new place to live!
Our basement flooded and now the whole house STINKS.

So anyways, I went to the river to get a look.

In Cape Girardeau we have this pretty neat levy system. (I think it is a levy) It is basically a big cement wall.

(This is a picture I took standing right next to the river in November 07)
Water was all the way up to the wall today.

The City of Cape Girardeau closed the gates at the big wall because the river is soo high!
Here are the pictures to prove it.

On the other side of that wall is where the picture above was taken.



This picture shows that there is 60 feet of space from the water to the bridge.