Milk Run With June

January 10, 2008

I gathered up a few kids to go get milk Monday evening.  It was rainy and windy and getting really dark, so I turned on the radio and heard that there were at least 2 tornados in the area. 

I am always up for an adventure and thought for a minute that it would be a fun drive out there in the bad weather.  If we did happen to get caught up in the storm I had the trusty portable propane heater with us and we all had jackets on… we would be fine. 

A little voice in my head told me that I should call Katie and get her take on it.   So, I called.  She didn’t care if I went!  Now I am thinking to myself that she wants to live high on the hog with the proceeds of my life insurance policies.  hmm.  So I asked her again if she thought I should go, this time making sure that she knew there were like three tornados around us.  She knew I caught her and she changed her tune and told me to come home.

So, Tuesday morning I grabbed Junie and my camera and headed out to get the milk.

Here are some pictures from that morning.

 

 

Here is a nice tree we passed on the way.

 

A good looking fence.

 

A curve in the road.

Since we were already out and about, I thought we should find out how high the water in the Finley River was.

 

The water is normally a foot below the dam on the upstream side and a good ten feet below it on the downstream side.  That is the Ozark Mill in the background.

 

It’s good to be prepared.

 

I was thinking of building all of our cabins on the hill… but cabins on stilts are cool too!  Would you stay in a cabin like this?  If the water was lower, of course.

 

Now that is cool!

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