Manda Sue

04/12/2024

04/11/2024

Holy moly, midwesterners! Don't get too comfy and hang onto your seats. We've got another wet and windy one coming!!!

Here is my thinking based on what the models are showing.

Monday afternoon and evening will be the plains in tornado alley.

Tuesday will be Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys right in the MidWest Hoosier and Dixie Alley.

Wednesday will be the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys in Dixie Alley.

04/11/2024

Good morning, beautiful world! Lazy day for this mama... Baby snuggles are the BEST!!! 🥰🥰🥰

04/09/2024

What a fun bit of information! And just L👀K at that absolutely GORGEOUSSSS pink house!!! 🩷

I’ve drove past this PINK Ozark GIRAFFE house many times and thought that stands out! I’m not sure if they just painted over the stone or what. I have so many photo’s of giraffe style homes and churches, built uniquely in the Ozark’s using local stone that I’ve taken photos of over the years. They are slowly starting to disappear, but many are very hardy and being remodeled and reused. So I’ll be sharing more. 🩷🩷🩷
History:
Giraffe houses are generally thought to have first appeared around 1910, but their acceptance grew during the 1930s by Missouri agricultural extension bulletins, which described how to build a house from indigenous stone. Often used as a veneer over standard frame houses, the thick slabs could be structural as well. But, these makers of slab stone houses used their own sense of design, with starburst patterns and other creative choices of surface decoration to personalize their building process. Consider these builders part of a long tradition of “make-doer’s” in the Ozark hills.
People also call them: rock houses, flagstone houses, river rock houses, slab houses, but they are all GIRAFFE houses. 🦒 😊

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📍 Benton County

04/09/2024

Love me some state parks!!! 🌳🐿️✌️

04/08/2024

As a baking family, you'd think we'd get this right..

The chaos surrounding the use of the three other burners tells a whole 'nother story! 👩‍🍳🔥🍳💀

04/08/2024

I can't drive.. 55! 🎶

04/08/2024

Y'all, I'm cracking up!!! 😁😁😁

𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗥 𝗘𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗘𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗦
- Don’t stop along the interstate or park on the shoulder.
- Don’t take photographs while driving.
- Never wear eclipse glasses when driving a car or operating a boat.
- Turn your headlights on and do not rely on your automatic headlights.

04/07/2024

This is too cool! 😎

Tune in!!! 104.7 The Cave
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Join 104.7 The Cave this Monday April 8th as we celebrate the Eclipse! We will start Dark Side of the […]

04/07/2024

Everything's a good excuse to make a cake!!! 🍰

So have you heard of the Purkinje Effect? And what exactly is this 'magic zone' we're hearing about?

“This Purkinje effect during the coming eclipse will turn the whole experience from just watching the sky go dark to a real-life science demo,” according to a spokesperson with SolarEyeglasses, reported Ozark First.

About 4 or 5 minutes before the moon covers the sun completely, we enter the Mesopic zone. This 'Twilight Vision' "is the time when it’s not too bright or too dark, but colors will appear [much] more dull and even turn a silver or grey color." This would normally take 30-45 minutes, but the eclipse speeds the process up drastically!

I'll be playing with cake to see the fun solar effect, how about you??? I'd love to see pics from my friends across the country having fun with the solar eclipse, so be sure to share your stories and pics!

03/19/2024

Everybody out there be sharing this, while I'm over here 2-stepping with a two month old on repeat! 😏😂😒