Is it the weekend yet?

Well, we got the pile of debris burned. Actually, Amanda and Tom were there before we got home and had the fire started. She also had brats and polish sausage wrapped in foil with peppers and onions cooking in the pit, fresh veggies, chips and s'mores for dessert! mmmmmmmmmmm Just gotta love having kids when they do something like that! :) The grand kids were playing in our kiddie pool so we were all happy campers.
More rain to move in tonight and usually when we get rain it travels down river to the southern counties that are still recovering from flooding. Here' an interesting chart for rainfall in June


This image from NASA shows rainfall totals from June 2-9. This image shows rainfall totals for the 7-day period between June 2 and June 9, 2008. Rainfall amounts exceeding 100 millimeters (approximately 4 inches, shown in green) extend from north-central Oklahoma up into South Dakota and eastward into Michigan and Ohio. Higher amounts on the order of 200 to 300 mm (about 8 to 12 inches, shown in yellow) cover significant portions of this same area. The highest totals for the period (shown in red) exceed 400 mm (16 inches) and are located over central Indiana. More: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/shownh.php3?img_id=14880 (NASA)

As you can see, south central Indiana got hammered! Crops are gone and some communities will never recover. Will be a long road for many. 90% of the town of Paragon was under water.


6th and Cottage St. in Columbus, IN









Mud lines on car in Columbus, IN


Interstate 70 in Putnam County, IN

Today in History:

June 12, 1942

Anne Frank receives a diary

On this day, Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, receives a diary for her 13th birthday. A month later, she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in rooms behind her father's office. For two years, the Franks and four other families hid, fed and cared for by Gentile friends. The families were discovered by the Gestapo, which had been tipped off, in 1944. The Franks were taken to Auschwitz, where Anne's mother died. Friends in Amsterdam searched the rooms and found Anne's diary hidden away.

Anne and her sister were transferred to another camp, Bergen-Belsen, where Anne died of typhus a month before the war ended.

Anne's father survived Auschwitz and published Anne's diary in 1947 as The Diary of a Young Girl. The book has been translated into some 30 languages.

June 12, 1965

Supremes set record

On this day in 1965, the Supremes set music industry records when "Back in My Arms Again" becomes their fifth consecutive single to top the charts. The record still stands today.

June 12, 1987

Reagan challenges Gorbachev

On this day in 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany.

June 12, 1994

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murdered

Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman are brutally stabbed to death outside Nicole's home in Brentwood, California, in what quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson became the chief suspect. (Who could forget: If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit? IMHO this trial was a joke and travesty to justice. The prosecution messed up and he got away with murder.)

Ok, I need to get some work done....latersssss ;)