Excuses

I promised I'd let you know why we haven't been around much in the last couple weeks. You may have already guessed one reason. If you've been watching the news, you may already know that Missouri is flooded. Except for a couple days it's been raining for two weeks.

I don't mean nice gentle spring showers that bring May flowers, I mean torrential downpours accompanied by thunder and lightning all day and all night. When we'd detect a lessening in the rain, we'd rush the dogs outside, but often we'd get caught as the rain started up again.

We're all somewhat damp and our nerves are frazzled from the thunder, but our house isn't in the flood zone. Some cities were cut off with all roads in and out completely under water. Here are pictures of Branson.

 It's true we've had droughts for the last several summers, but getting all the rain at once doesn't exactly solve the problem. Hey, all you climate deniers out there, come here and try living in our rainforest with nine antsy dogs.

 At least everything is bright green in the yard and this bush that hasn't bloomed in two years is alive with flowers now. We may need a goat to keep up with the rapidly growing grass.

 Check back in July when our yard will probably be bare of grass and cracking from the hot sun. Isn't this fun?