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First off is the call Stacy got this morning from daughter Laura. She'd gone to the hospital right after work last night because of some numbness and feeling "not quite right". Turns out she'd had a mild stroke. Tomorrow is her birthday, she'll be 28. Released this morning, she has a heart monitor on and was told to live her normal life, go to work as normal etc. She just talked to me on the phone as she was on her way to work as a AT&T complaint and help operator on the swing shift. She said she thinks it was a particularly unruly "customer" that she'd been dealing with that took her over the edge in stress levels. We'll have to see what the doctors find in the barrage of tests they had performed on her last night. We are hoping for the best! I'd forgotten about it with the last post. So, how did the Prom go? We wound up being there for almost 3 hours. There were about 120 kids there, remember this is small town USA, the entire senior...

These photos were taken over the past couple of weeks as Stacy is working on making the office, her new office, her own. First thing to do was clean up and take out all the stuff no longer needed and left by the previous boss. It was a LOT! The top two photos are about mid week and in the worst of it. This last photo shows how it got to me too! Stacy decided she wanted to use the opened metal cabinet in this photo in her office for storage. Its no problem with me, I just needed to empty it out and get it moved. I was in the process of taking all the stuff out in this photo here. Now it is all done and having the cabinet in Stacy's was a great idea as now there's actually a place to store all the office supplies instead of in each office. All offices look so much better now. Much less cluttered, much nicer looking. Last Friday (the 7th) and Saturday, we had interviews to find a person to replace Stacy in her old position. Out of seven people it's down to two possibles. Jus...

Three photos taken earlier today of our town after almost 5 days of Spring rain showers. Top photo shows the trees in front of the court house becoming green again after Winter. Middle photo shows the low rainy clouds that started out the day. Photo shows the towns clock tower, tops of some old brick buildings in town and highway 95/2 going North from the drop down into old town since it sits almost right on the river. And lastly looking East at low clouds and rain out towards Katka Mountain, in the clouds. Although no wind at the time, it has since gotten VERY windy with showers outside with the flags all standing straight out including the giant one in the photo that is at the Library. A more winter in most areas 48 degrees outside too! Stacy's the "big cheese" now. Jackie was in for about an hour this morning and got the last of her things and said her good byes, for now. Officially, Stacy still isn't the boss until midnight tonight. She's in her 'new...

So again I'm late! These photos were uploaded last Friday, 4/23/2010, and I haven't been able to get back to them until today. Like the title says, what a difference a month can make! As I'd planned, I took photos last month with the idea of taking from almost the same place to show the "greening" of our area as more spring weather arrives. So these photos are the before and after kind of photos. Top two photos, top one from March second from April, show the trees of our property at the left of the photo. The field in the shot is already growing its first cut of this years alfalfa with a small group of Canadian Geese that have started to be in this field in the mornings. You can also see how our days are getting longer fast too! All these photos were taken at almost the exact same hour of the morning, about 7:40 am, and you can really see how much less shadows are in the April shots. We're already getting light by 4:30 am now and by June it will be around 3:0...

Top photo is one taken last Saturday afternoon of "Clifty Peak" South of town. The tallest mountain of the area. Taken as we were driving back from the North Bench area of town. Middle photo was taken on my way home from work Wednesday afternoon. This is called "Black Mountain", I'm guessing from the area Indian's decades ago as in summer it does get very dark green. We've been to the top on several quad rides. At the top are the 'translators' for off air TV service. It used to be just 3 mostly fuzzy channels, now with the digital change it's up to 12 generally clear channels. I actually even watch some local channels at times. I like the added PBS channels World and Create. At the top are also microwave repeaters for various governmental agencies, the area ham radio antenna in addition to antennas for who knows what. Also an old fire lookout tower. Last photo was taken last evening on my way home and is of the areas Golf course, Mirror lake...

And that was last week! Today is the 13th even though this post will have the 9th as the day of the post since I'd uploaded the photos that day hoping I'd get right back to it. Wrong! I posted the short note about Stacy officially getting the department head position and had hoped to add to it. However even with the flurry of activity involved in Stacy getting transitioned to the new job, she officially starts on May 1st, its been busy for me too since I've been covering for Carol, the adult probation officer, who's been off because her husband had to have surgery last week. So with Carol off last week and this week and Stacy traveling two days last week and two days this week have made me actually having to WORK at work!! To the photos of this posting. Last week while Carol and her husband were out of town for the operation, Stacy and I had to go to their house twice a day and feed their horses and cats. While Stacy was gone last Wednesday and Thursday I took care o...

After almost two months of Stacy stressing about the Supervisor's job, it was finally announced this morning at the commissioner's meeting that Stacy will be the Chief Probation Officer starting on May 1st! She's on cloud 9 and happy. I am very happy she'll get her turn in a big chair, she's been overlooked and deserved this chance for so long. It was about time and Stacy IS the best one for the job! Shaping up to be another busy week here but I think I should be able to update again before Friday! Tad