Don't you just love the show "Entertainment Tonight"?  They'll announce with great acclaim the items they are covering for the evening and when at last they get to a particular item, there's bog all to it!  Now we Brits have been supporting America in Afghanistan and Iraq so you would think ET would at least know something about Britain - not a chance!  During 'Tthe Wedding' they mispronounced The Mall - no it's not a shopping mall it's a street you twits!  Even worse, to the great dismay of every Welshman who may have seen the program, they referred to Anglesey as a town when it's actually an island, separated from the mainland by the Meni Strait (a rather wide stretch of seawater).

I thought that maybe that if they can't get 'The Mall' right, it would be something of a giggle to hear them try to pronounce the name of one of the towns on Anglesey:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

If that tongue twister doesn't get them all of a flutter nothing will.  They'll no doubt call on Catherine Zeta Jones for some help - at least she can pronounce it (No I can't, but then I'm a Brit poking fun at ET).  Oh yes, the above place name is for real - Google it and see for yourself.

Perhaps we're too far north on the Mississippi to be too threatened by flood waters, we also missed the worse of the storms, but we did get hit with quite a few homes with holes in their siding from the hail.  The river flooded, but not enough to do much damage.  Downstream the river got gradually higher, now their having real problems in the southern states.  Here it was expected because of all the snow, it had to melt and go somewhere and that somewhere is the Mississippi.  We need to keep the folks down south in our thoughts and prayers.

Our web site The Cook Companies looks a little better with a new home page and an updated page for out Catholic links.  It took me a while to check out which links were still working and which were not and keeping abreast of changes to other web sites is a pain in the sitting place.  All four of Karin's books are still listed on our web site and I hope to update some of our pages in the near future.