We are in the middle of a gully washer so to speak!

 TERRY

Terry is awake and reading the paper as I write.  She is same same as always.

We are in the middle of a rainy many many hours.  I think it started raining yesterday morning as our tennis was cancelled.  Here we are more than 24 hours later with the rain gauge showing 7 1/2" of rain and it is still wet outside.  Of course I have no complaints if the hurricanes stay away.  I am guessing there will be NO tennis this weekend and not so sure of Monday either.  The pool is as full as it get as at a certain point it is on overflow and it drains into the trees behind our house.

This rain reminds me of some of the times on the farm when we had heavy heavy rains.  There was a low spot in our driveway and also rain would drain from our garden area into the low spot and then into a large grassy area beyond that.  More than once after heavy rains I would take my shoes off and spent much time being an engineer as I made ditches etc for the water to drain.  Of course Mom made sure I did NOT got out in the heavy rain but would make me wait until it stopped.  Fun times to think about as one gets into the OLDER years!!!

There is really not much if anything to write about today.  I may get to Costco to get some things but other than that it is a stay in the house day AND maybe get some things cleaned up and put away.  

Terry is doing the same as usual.  She has not gotten any stronger but has not declined either so that is very good.   We wil take it one day at a time and make the most of it.

Perhaps I can write a bit about draining water past the driveway on the farm.

We had a driveway that was perhaps 90 yards long as it came into the yard.  I know because my one hole golf course was from where we parked our car to the ditch near the mailbox which was right on the right side of the road.  Later when Bert's were forced to sell their farm to the wildlife the mail man came from the south.  At that time Dad moved the mail box to the right side of our driveway.  That meant the mailman could turn into our driveway drop the mail off and back up and leave again.  

Well back to my rainy day activities,  There was a low area in our driveway about halfway between the road and our house.  Most of the time it was fine but if we got a heavy rain there would be a huge muddy area in the road.  Dad's way of getting around that was to just drive to the south a bit into the grass and it would be fine.  Never did he think about filling in the low sport to fix it!!!  Anyway there was a small ditch from our garden to the low spot so much water would flow from the garden area thought the low spot and into the large grassy area to the south.  With a heavy rain the water would build up and that was where I would have my fun.  I would spent hours, really hours, making tiny ditches for the water to drain.  Then at time I would make a little creek and so the water would drain in one place.  It was kind of the perfect place for a young boy to pass many hours after a rain storm.

I pledge to get the table cleared of papers today.  I promise to report tomorrow to tell of my sucess or my failure!

Something I do not understand.  It seems no matter if I make a meal or not there is always dirty dishes!!!  I Kind of think someone comes in the night and makes a mess for me!  Anyway that is how I tell myself that the work does not get done.  

I will end today with a picture.  It was in the Wall Street Journal paper today.  It is an albine Galapagos baby turtle and it's mother.  I wonder how long it takes to be full grown???

That is it for today.  My FP is still half a cup so will be on the computer for a while longer but will sign off of my blog.