While we have adored our stay in Alabama these past two weeks…. all of the rain, tropical storms, hurricanes and everything…. we are getting packed up and ready to skeeeedatttle our butts back home! We have learned a few things while we were here… 1.) Catching two 14-inch bass is a hell of a lot more fun than cleaning them and eating them! – 2 of ’em really don’t provide much of a meal once you take the head and tale off and fillet those suckers! 2.) Don’t walk around the muddy banks of Alabama without shoes on!! What are […]

The storm wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. We’re safe and alive . . for those who have inquired. Just like everyone told me – – it was a bit of rain, a bit of wind and that was really about it for us. The current winds are 10-12 mph with an approximate rainfall of 3 inches for the day. Overall – not bad. We lived. It was all fine – further proving the extent of my storm neurosis to Chris and family. It’s ok, though – I can take it. I’m neurotic when it comes to […]

Can my children, Melissa and Ben, actually have FUN together when they are held hostage in a itty bitty town (pop. 811) in the middle of Nowhere, Alabama. Away from their friends. No computers. No video games. Very limited access to television. Can they actually have a good time…TOGETHER… when they aren’t at home trying to be cool around all of their buddies?? The answer…. Mind you, these pictures were taking from the back of a speeding boat. While my camera does have an auto-image stabalizer.. I think I have yet to figure out how to hold still while taking […]

We have spend the day today tying things down and putting away things that could potentially sprout wings and fly when Hurricane Dennis makes his way through these parts. The track map looks a LOT more hopeful for us today than it has in days past: If Dennis stays this course – it looks like we’ll catch the very outside of him. I’m a total basket case in bad storms. It stems from 1981 when two tornados hit our neighborhood taking out almost everything in a 10 block area. Our own home was one of maybe 5 that were left […]

If we knew we were going to be spending the week with Cindy and Dennis – we would have made more room! Don’t you HATE univited guests???

So, here we are – living in the south for the next 2 weeks. It’s already been an experience! For the 4th of July – we went to a fireworks show! It wasn’t the hour-long BIG BANG! that we are used to in Milwaukee down at the shore of Lake Michigan. No – this was done Lake Wedowee style. That’s right – – we all hopped in our trucks and drove up the road to the Citgo station! Yep – you heard it – – the fireworks show was held at the gas station down the street! We parked on […]

Can’t you just picture me there? I can. That’s where I’ll be headed on September 3rd. Chris and I just booked an 8-day cruise! We leave Ft. Lauderdale on the 3rd and head to St. Thomas, St. Maartens and Princess Cays Island. Now, if that doesn’t perk up my winter doldrums, I don’t know what will! We’re going with two other couples. Dan and Tammy – Chris’s business partner and his wife… and Tim and Libby – – one of their clients and her husband. We had talked about taking a ski trip to Brekenridge this year, but someone piped […]