Another Rainy Weekend

With very few exceptions, every weekend this spring that we've been in Arkansas has rained. It'll be nice all week, and sometime Friday or Saturday the heavy rains will come and muddy up the river so it isn't much good for swimming or fishing.  This has given us some chances to explore, like this trip across the state line to West Plains, Missouri, home of Porter Wagoner.

The Loose Meat sandwich found only in Iowa and Missouri.

Thumbs up.

Crazy gum ball machine.  The gum tasted like it was from 1985 because it probably was.

Back in Hardy after a flash flood, the river was high, muddy and full of debris.  This log was easily 40 feet and moving fast.

The beloved floating dock was under a serious logjam, but the river was too wild for anyone to safely go out and try to remove the logs.  We've seen the little dock withstand bad storms and some logjams worse than this, but a few minutes after this picture was taken a large tree came straight down the river and took the dock with it.  The rocky falls downstream that would usually stop the runaway dock were so underwater that it just kept on going.  Bummer.