Volume 9 , Issue 28

Oklahoma Rain

I had to turn off my computer just about the time this message was coming in because lightning was dancing all around and thunder was booming loudly here. It continued raining most of the night and my dog (Duchess) kept waking me from her place in the bathroom wanting to go out, but everytime I'd open the back door for her, she'd scoot back past me to hide in her bed. I couldn't get her to go out 'til the rain had almost quit about 8:30 this morning. My rain gauge this morning shows another 2.35" of rain overnight and the grass is growing so rapidly you can almost see it daring me to start mowing again (and of course it's too wet for that).

I hope your travels are "weather" free and that you'll think of the "Okie's" back here while you enjoy a sip of that California wine. In the meantime we're wondering if we will have the wettest July to follow that wettest June. I guess that we just prayed too long for rain during that dry-spell and we're now being teased as those prayers are still being answered. Have a safe trip and hurry back.

I guess our newspaper was having a slow newsday because they ran all these photos about the 1.1" of rain on Thursday but the next day they just had a tiny piece in reference to the 2.7" that fell that night! Is it so commonplace now that we should ignore what follows?

Our gas prices were soaring out of sight too (went up to $3.15.9 early this week) until they had too many complaints and today our local stations dropped them back down to $3.05.9. Of course that's still too high, but we have no choice. No more rain since night before last so there were lawn mowers roaring to life all over town. Not mine though, I had other things to do. I took measurements and photos of some more things to put on my web pages and will probably start working on them again as soon as I send this message; and I suppose I should do that about now. " -- -- Roy K.
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