Hellooooo out there! Tap, tap, tap....anyone out there?
I've been home, not feeling up to anything but napping and reading blogs for the last 2 days. It's been raining here in Houston (YES!!!), and it's been nice to listen to the lovely sound of raindrops tap dancing their way down the leaves into the ground...which, I could swear, was groaning in relief.
The groaning may have been the whole city... some of whom were groaning with relief that they didn't have to water the yard, and some of whom were groaning, knowing they'd be mowing about 3 feet of lawn in a week, and others groaning, cause, well, when it rains, it floods in some parts of the city.
Okay, a bunch of places in the city.
Okay... more than a bunch and mostly whole neighborhood areas and streets. (Never buy a house in any area named Friendswood... it means you are going to be real used to meeting your neighbors in flat bottomed boats.)
Fact is, the streets are built on the premise that they will flood. This is our version of a combination method of flood control and drainage system. Not many below ground sewers here, where you can hit the water table less than 10 feet below ground level. No, no basements either. (I'd never seen a basement until we moved to Illinois for a year during my senior year of high school.)
I think I'm feeling better now, and may be able to want to go outside and see what has survived my neglect, tomorrow. Right now, I'm at work. And that, maybe, is why I've been kinda tired.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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Plant a seed!