Lundy Says-Amusing Info from Lundy Wilder

Thanks Marti for this clever idea. It looks lovely in your home.

After these last 3 or 4 hurricanes in the vicinity, this old ship was tossed ashore. People said they saw it back in 1997 and has made occasional appearances over the years. Now it is a big attraction on Ft. Morgan beach, just down the road from me. It is located between mile markers 5 and 6. And it is way longer than it looked on TV and in the newspaper. The boat had burned to the water level and what you see now is the part that was underwater still very much intact, blops of hardened molten metal and lots of charcoal where the fire was. Doesn't this look like a one of the spooky ships from the Pirates of Caribbean movie ?

Okay so this is how I imagine this conversation went: Walmart Employee: 'Hello, Walmarts, how can I help you?' Customer: ' I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.' Walmart Employee: 'What you want on the cake?' Customer: 'Best Wishes Suzanne' and underneath that 'We will miss you'. from my niece, thanks Frances

A bunch of very well done paper models from all over the world you can print and construct.

Google quote of the day... Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end. - Jerry Seinfeld

Well would you look at this roasted veggie pizza ! Usually the Kashi brand is really good about having an actual product that not only tastes great but that looks like the image on the package. They are blowing it totally here. I threw on about a cup of sliced mushrooms and onions and cooked it anyway. The top photo is the back of the box. GET REAL KASHI !!

Today we got a truck w/ the three huge curved cornice pieces that we have been waiting on from DacArt. I got a phone call from a friend asking why I had the whole highway blocked w/ this semi flatbed turning around to back in my driveway....so I went dashing over. No make-up or hair-do, but I did take time to slap on some lipstick. And sure enuf, there were the three cornices and the rest of our concrete steps. I took photos which I will try to get onto http://www.ConcreteCottage.com later today. I had to quickly paint concrete acid stain onto the two curved cornice pieces that they managed to get on the ground face-up. One still has to be flipped over so I can get to the parts I need to color. But two are finished now so I am back at Hardwood Dr and they can place the two that are colored before I get over there to color the third one. My good friend, Becky, who lives in Baton rouge sent me a bunch of photos that show how bad her neighborhood got torn up from Hurricane Gustav. She liv...

I am not making this up... Picasa Web Albums, Google’s free and therefore widely-popular photo-sharing tool, added facial recognition technology to online photo albums Tuesday. The system now lets you automatically tag your photos with your friends’ names (pulled from your Gmail contacts, if you have them). The technology is frighteningly intuitive and quick to learn, suggesting the appropriate name tag when it recognizes your friends in photos you’ve uploaded. Turn on the “name tags” feature and Picasa will automatically scan the pictures you’ve uploaded, picking out the ones it thinks have faces in them. Then, you can attach name tags to individual photos of people, or to groups of photos the software has identified as showing similar faces. It makes for a fun little game, tagging the people you know with the matching Gmail contact. Picasa quickly starts learning who’s who as you continue to tag your way through your pictures. After tagging for a bit, it will be able to recognize you...

Just added a new page to the Gulf Shores website for everyone who wonders if their condo or beach house is OK... http://www.gulf-shores-alabama.net/hurricane-gustav-gulf-shores-alabama.html

Our labor days were the last two days. Stephen came down and really helped by burning a pile of wood scraps that had gotten way too big. It wind had blown all that scrap around it could have done a lot of damage. Plus it was all piled on the south side of the house, facing the glass. The photo shows where the pile WAS. We put the hurricane panels in the south facing windows. Dave closed all the remaining hinged shutters on the guesthouse. In the morning, Juan and Jose came over and helped move furniture about from living room to condo and condo to condo, etc...more on why we had to do that later. Juan and Jose also helped secure loos building materials in our rented container. There is a ton of cement tile in the container too. The upper shutters have since blown off, but they were there when Harry made the panels for the lower ones. They have 2 x 4 frames behind them and are really heavy and hard even for two adults to get up into place. They are strong tho--no doubt about it. But I ...

Well it looks like we are not getting it nearly as bad as it could be. Streets are clear some have water over them, but we were able to drive down Fort Morgan pretty far before the police had a blockade due to water over the road. I am posting some photos from about noon today. We went out to Mobile Street, off Fort Morgan Road in Gulf Shores. The newly built wood ramp out to the beach had some damage at the low end. There was one other car out there w/ some curious people like us. No other souls in sight. It was not raining when I took these photos but the wind was blowing hard. The sand in the air hurt. I got sand in every part of my body. Now, at 2:30 p.m. it is raining hard as I type this. Internet connection is iff-y. but then it has been iff-y for last few days, they said 'server problems' . In the last photo you can see my friends Mary & Jerry's fortress. It sits a good way back from the beach and has some serious dunes between the house and the surf. A good th...