Red State Green

I guess we’ll stay with what we got!

Hope 2009 is a good one.

Back from vacation. Tired.
(aren’t you supposed to rest on vacations??)

This blog is a year old today. And it’s raining outside!

(click on picture for the full article)
When the weather turned violent and stormy on Tuesday evening, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in northeastern Iowa, looked out her front door and saw a funnel cloud bearing down — and evidently had the presence of mind to grab her digital camera [...]

Sometimes you just need a break from the internet. I’m not sure how long I’ll be gone but play nice.

I just got a new spam filter put on, and my spam went from 100 a day to nothing. My comments went to nothing, too, which makes me suspicious ….
If you’ve gotten your mail eaten use my contact page and let me know.

Ice storms came through here on Sunday and Monday (click on a picture to enlarge).
This is our neighbor’s tree:

The crape myrtle bush in our front yard:

Our persimmon tree:

Each blade of grass and each twig was encased in ice. My son is showing off a blade of grass and a twig here:

Everything was encased in ice, [...]

I think the only ones here are me and the spammers.

One of my sons left quite a bit of gum in his pocket. Fortunately, I’ve just begun hanging laundry, and I (hopefully) caught all of it. If I had just been throwing stuff in the dryer, who knows what might have happened.

Our household is having some internet issues, which is why I haven’t posted in a while. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to reach this site today.
Hope all of you are well.

Come on in. I just moved in the place, thus the lack of posts. That will change very soon. Take a look at the “About Red State Green” page, and bookmark this if you like.
Feel free to introduce yourself! I like to know who’s come to visit.