Third Sinkhole Nearby, Heavy Rain, Quick Trip on Tap

Over the weekend a third sinkhole opened up around 1,000 feet to our east.  This red car was park where these people always seem to have a car parked, they heard a “whoosh” and went outside to find their car in a hole.  The called a tow truck which quickly got it out.  

By the evening, the hole grew a bit, and stick was lowered into it, broke through the upper crust and went down six feet.  No water, a dry hole which may or may not collapse all the way through before being fixed.  This is about 1,100 feet from where they were pumping water, and is between the pumping site and a large pond which sometimes has water in it, and sometimes does not.   Are they all connected?   I think so, the county still insists that the pumping is unrelated to all this.  Ya, right.

On Monday we got hit by the huge storm which swept across much of the nation the past few days.  Around 2 pm the heavens opened, the water fell for 30-45 minutes as hard as I have ever seen (which means I have seen this before, even driven through it more than once in a car.)  Then it let up and just rained for another few hours, then off and on through the night.  Awoke to a very large KaBOOM this morning and then it was over.

 

Now it is cold, and will be for another day or two.   I say that while wearing short pants, sleeveless shirt, and no socks on.  This is one of those days when I see people in jackets, sweaters, even winter coats while I run around in shorts.  Sometimes I stop and ask myself, “Is t cold?”  The majority of the time the answer is “NO”.  Mom says, and frankly I remember, that after church on Sunday during the winter time in Sacramento they would come out to the car finding us kids waiting for them and she would be lucky if I still had a shirt on.  (Hated button up shirts then, and now.)

We are headed over to the east coast for a couple of days to spend some time with Marcia’s brother Dean and wife Carol.  We always enjoy our visits there, hook the motorhome up to their 20 amp outlet and that gives us all we need since we are typically in the motorhome only for sleeping while there.  We were going to head out on Wednesday after church and stop at our favorite rest area, but with temps expected in the low 40’s at night we figured leaving Thursday and fighting the morning traffic was going to have to do.

Always A Good Day When You Beat LSU

Kicking Out 763 days of SEC Loss with a Golden Boot Sign held by Kate, Ryan and Zach

That is my youngest son Ryan (far right), his girlfriend Kate (left) with Ryan’s friend Zach (middle) after tonight’s Arkansas upset of number 17 LSU.  Arkansas “had” to change thier head coach after the previous “un-named” head coach got caught with his, ummmm, we will say “hand in the cookie jar” after he got in a “wreck” on a motorcycle with the “cookie” on the back….although rumor is that the “cookie’s boyfriend” actually beat the living daylights out of him.  Anyway, I am digressing, but this history is needed to make the story tonight.  Now here we are with nearly full two seasons with head coach Bret Bielema, who came from Wisconsin where he was head coach for six very successful years. He has done good at Arkansas, which has fallen hard after the mess with the “lying cookie monster”, but Bret had been unable to win an SEC Game (Southeastern Conference, the best and toughest conference in College Football)…until TONIGHT!   The team had nearly beaten three ranked SEC teams, Mississippi State, Alabama and Georgia earlier this year.  The other two SEC games, Texas A&M and Auburn, were sound defeats, but had good moments. Tonight, not only did they BEAT LSU, they SHUT THEM OUT, 17-0!!!!!!

So what is with the “gold” in the sign?  That is the state of Arkansas and the state of Louisiana , and as you can see, they form a “boot”, hence, the “Golden Boot”.

Here is the real boot right before the game tonight, a real nice trophy that the winning team get to keep for one year until they play again.

   

Here is the boot right after Arkansas re-claims it after four long, hard years.

Not that anyone cares about winning….well…when you are in the SEC, football, basketball, baseball, track…. they are all important, but nothing is more important than football.

And when you beat a team that you have played for over 50 times in the last 100 years, winning is very sweet, as you can see.

If you want to hear their fight song, click here.

If you want to see a very short video about “calling the hogs”, click here.

(See, I don’t like embedded stuff in websites very much myself….last time I thought you might want to see the car get lifted out of the sinkhole, but this time I doubt very many want to take the minute or two to see more about the HOGS…..but I do know there are some diehards out there…at least three….my three kids!)

 

After all, there are some images a father can never forget….love you son….you make me VERY PROUD in SO many ways…..  (that’s my oldest son Michael at a Arkansas Cal-Berkeley basketball game earlier this year. He is now in his final year of his masters program there….he was caught on the ESPN cameras, not his most flattering moment, but one I will never forget and will always treasure….)

And here is my daughter Stephanie (right) who posted Ryan’s picture on her Instagram page after she inserted her picture in it with them.  She said that ESPN had the sign and them on camera for a few seconds during the game.  She is one crazy girl who takes after both her mother and her father in so many ways…..she definitely has my sports loving genes.  Love ya girl…..