Farm Sightings

A re-post from the topside blog:

Ok, since there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that anyone will just pop up on my radar down here in St. Louis, I have to survive on other bits of farm. Music. Day after day of listening to eclectic music chosen by different people in the kitchen has stuck with me. In the past week, I have had encounters three times that have 'transported' me back.

After getting over my initial paralysis at hearing something so out of place, I eventually came up with the names of the Bands, and a little more searching led me to finding out the titles.

Ben Lee in Kohl's - We are all in this Together
UPS commercial with the Postal Service - the first 30 seconds of Such Great Heights
Kohl's again - Wrapped up in Books

Seems as if we here in the Midwest are a little behind in getting the music, trends, and fashion, but I guess that isn't really a new revelation. I just liked the little slice of something... familiar.

A post devoted to the flood and Joel

The water was not on this road below when I arrived.

Notation for Pictures 2 and 3 seen below: This was the road I was driving along to get to the part that was flooded and one of a few houses that we sandbagged during the afternoon.

A video of us working.

Just Joel. :)

Rain - From Mar. 19 - forgot to post... or to finish wr...

It rained and rained the last few days. We got around 8" of rain in fact. That's quite unheard of for these areas. The last time I remember such a torrential downpour was back in Oct of '05 at the farm when Joel and I tried to go camping up in Maine. We started off down a road in MA having not checked the weather in advance and had to turn back a couple times from the road flooding out. We were off to check out the fall folliage and what we ended up doing was touring Maine in the rain and cloud cover and attempting to stay dry in a soggy tent. I remember, it let up for 15 min before we left camp and headed home where it started to rain again. Once we got back, we found out how much it had rained in Monterey and in Maine and saw the bridge was flooded and the roads had big gullies down the centers. What a memory. So, as it was raining hard all day long, I thought of the days of travelling. It inspired me to read ooold posts, ones from when I just started at the farm. I guess my nostaligia comes through here.



As for my life, Joel just left after being here for the week of his Spring Break. We did lots of things. I ended up losing a lot of sleep, we'd stay up late talking watching tv. When did I get to be such a junkie for tv? I don't even want to have one in the house, but somehow, from 10 until 11:30, I sit and watch the 'boob tube' as it's been called in my family. I don't have any idea how it got the name. It must be a midwestern thing too cause people around here use the term for the tv. 10:00 is Two and half Men, 10:30 is Everybody Loves Raymond and 11:00 is King of Queens. Around 11:30, I try to turn in

Courtesy of www.offthemark.com
Days are going better, will write more soon!

Fun Stuff

Snow from Yesterday




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