The first: last night we attended a scholarship awards ceremony. The way they do things here is that the students and parents are invited to the ceremony knowing only that the student has been awarded a scholarship, but not knowing from which organization or for how much. We were thrilled that our Labrador Retriever-equivalent son (intelligent, enthusiastic, but entirely lacking in common sense) was among those receiving a scholarship. It wasn't big bucks -- enough to cover a fair chunk of one semester's expenses -- but it was totally unexpected. We were equal parts pleased and surprised. Maybe some of what we've been hammering into him has taken root after all.
The second pleasant surprise was that we got some unexpected rain. This part of the state has been suffering from an extended drought. Rivers and streams are drying up and lake levels are dropping (a local lake is now less than 7% full - that's not a typo; seven per cent is correct). So today's rain was more than welcome.
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| Karen Ripley, a resident of the Medina Lake area, investigates a boat left on the bottom by the receding waters of Elm Cove, a portion of Medina Lake, on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 |
All you folks who are getting too much rain - please send some of it our way. We'd sure appreciate it.
4 comments:
Congrats to the boy! And y'all ARE hurting... It's going to be another strange weather year!
Thanks for the congrats. As for the weather, it's that pesky global warming...
Okay you've got so much rain it's flooding and you have to have high water rescue. Can you send some of it to north Texas? We're not quite as severe as your drought but we sure could use a good rain.:-}
Mel.
Hey Mel, you know how it works down here. Months and months of little or no rain and then a gully-washer. It rains so hard and fast that even the parched ground can't absorb it quick enough. The creeks rise quickly, and then drop just as fast. The net effect is more like one or two inches than 10.
And there's always a bunch of idiots who drive around the barricades at low water crossings because they think their compact car can get through 3 feet of fast-moving white water.
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