The case of the ghost rain

Mark had his 3rd t-ball game tonight, and we capped it off a trip to Faith's Pizza. We heard the first of the storm warnings on the radio, and we managed to leave just in time to get home before the storm. And by storm, I mean wind storm. I didn't hear a single bit of thunder, and Ruthie wasn't sure if she had heard one or not.

Major storm warnings, and not thunder and lightning.


Fair enough, I guess. I went out onto the porch, which according to legend, or at least the guy who lives in the house behind us, has been enclosed since about '95. The first thing I saw was there was a huge wet area at the door, like it had been rained on, just barely not yet at the point of making a puddle. The ceiling and walls as well as the floor around it were all dry. Now, I admit, Enzo has left a puddle or two since he started using training pants vs diapers, but he was dry. Stinky, perhaps, but dry. The outside door is a good 10 feet or more, so even if the water came in there, it shouldn't have reached. Nothing else was wet. This was around 8, and by 10 when I was taking out the trash in the now stormless night, it was almost completely dried up.

I managed to finish another book tonight, making the total for the year 40 books. I am about to start The Golden Compass in the next day or so. After 2 Higgins books in a row, I need a genre change. Next for that genre will be The Drakov Memoranda by Jon Winters (aka Gilbert Cross) I already have the sequel The Catenary Exchange and I will probably order Berlin Fugue next week or so. I am really looking forward to it, since the other Gilbert books I have read were the Young Adult books.

I only have 2 cans left of White out Mountain Dew. Perhaps a bad name, but I like the flavor. I might get a second case this week.

I got an order from Germany for hot sauce, shipped w/i the US of course. I have it ready to take to the shipping depot tomorrow, and it will be on it's way quickly. It is actually the second foreign order I have taken, I did one over the phone from a Canadian to be sent to FL once. It is the first time UPS was selected as a shipping method, though I have sent FedEx before.

Now, if only I wasn't burning up, cooking in my skin from the weather... I miss Michigan many times, it's just too dang hot in here, and the windows are too far from the outlets to even think of getting an Air Conditioner. The fan in use now just doesn't cut it. So as long as I survive the heat, my hurt wrist and foot, I'll be fine. Well, that and get the rest of the $$ for the Strawberry Festival ride before the 15th.