Threating sky

This sky happened in the middle of the day.
The skies turned orange to a brilliant red.  I felt like the sky was almost within arms reach .  The colors were an absolute inspiration for a painting.  We have had so many storms in the past month but this one really noisy.. So much lightning happened as the storm went through

A labor of love....homemade recipe eatable

Remember when Mom cooked when you were a child?
Something special..And never a recipe!

Moms special recipe was vegetable soup!  She could make that soup 5 days a week and not one time did it taste the same. And it always got better. Tried to figure out what she put in it by just eating it .  Shoot that was not an option. 

The meat...uh ham, no  beef, nope pork.  It remained a mystery for a long long time.  I was in my 30's when she finally gave me her secret..  

Dreams of fresh sliced carrots, and tiny new potatoes not even fully grown yet.  Fresh peas from the store and fresh celery.  vine ripened tomatoes.  Garlic , fresh ,  not powdered.

And sweet onions.  

All of the above is what I thought she was going to say

NOT  NOT  NOT

My mouth was watering and with pencil in hand  began to take dictation

Mom looked me in the eye and said "Do you really want to know? Are you sure?  Are you ready? "   By this time my curiosity was tingling  and on the alert. My mom was an ole  trickster from way back when.

"You dont need to take notes!"  (worried now) " How many vegtables can you count in the soup, how many types?.  Here look at this bowl of soup"   She pushed it towards me... Oh I counted at least 10 different types.  " Tell me what you think is in the soup.."

I named off a bunch of stuff  and tasted it to find the spices.

Thought they were all fresh..

My mom had those tiny little baggies...and foil..

Every meal that we ever had in 2 wks time was part of the soup.   Veggies in separate bags.  pieces of onions that when cooked you could not tell if they were the end pieces.. celery leaves  onion roots  pieces of meat (only she knows what kind of meat)  ends of tomatoes    all the stuff you normally throw away..went into her soup..   No salt, pepper...  little bit of macaroni and cheese.... mashed and boiled potatoes.  

ham bones and steak bones.. squash, mushrooms...

There was nothing fresh... leftovers converted into a labor of love soup.

The ultimate soup.....Nothing ever wasted ever

And it was the best soup in the world.

 

awesome water slides

Tragedy in a Bass Tournament

Litchfield spillway
bottom of the spillway
(both the above links are to Youtube)
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Boating Accident on Lake Lou Yeager Leaves Schram City Man Dead

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:33:04 CDT
A boating accident left a Schram City man dead on Saturday. According to Litchfield Police 53 year old Granville “Jack” Floyd of Schram City was near the spillway on Lake Lou Yeager along with 47 year old Ernest Smith of Litchfield. The two were fishing along the dam and spillway area when heavy rainfall from the night before pulled the boat to the spillway. As the boat began to drop over the spillway Floyd reportedly jumped, Smith stayed in the boat and rode it to the bottom of the spillway. Smith was able to grab a lifejacket and swim to shore.
Members of the Litchfield Fire Department began combing the downstream area and found Floyd 300 yards from the spillway. A Litchfield Fire Department Dive Team swimmer pulled Floyd to the shoreline where resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.

The water was way too swift.  Floyd must of panicked.  They closed the lake after this til the water lowered.    If you check out the videos that I made you will see just how swift it was.  At the bottom of the spillway there are trees  that have grown up due to the water being lower... As you can see there are no trees showing.   They are still there once the water receded