Rain!

Here's how the back page of my newspaper reads:

Precipitation Month to Date: 14.70"
Normal Month to Date: 3.67"
Year to Date: 34.11"
Normal Year to Date: 23.06"

The front page article is titled, "Residents can get federal help." That's right. We've had enough rain to be considered a federal emergency. All summer long, especially in July, we had no rain. The grass was dead. It hurt to walk outside barefoot. All of a sudden August comes and we have water gushing through into the church basement and a small puddle in ours. Okay, maybe gushing is a strong word. But it did take about 10 towels to sop it all up one Sunday morning. Now our grass is far from dead and we're sick of the rain. Today we woke up to thunder and lightning. Hopefully God decides its time to quit and shares it with areas down south. We'll see.