And a weather post

One can't live in the Midwest and not talk about the weather. It's either subzero, Arctic freeze and blizzard in the winter or torrential rain monsoon in the spring or blazing hot desert in the summer. Autumn is about the most temperate season, although we can get one of the above then, too.


Rain and wind are the themes right now. Here's the "crick". The little one in the foreground is barely a trickle normally. Today is still
stormy, and more big ones are expected tonight. We were sitting
in the back of the house last night and didn't realize that the rain was pounding in the north windows. I say "pounding" because it was huge rain drops being blasted in the front windows. It was a lake on the floor by the dining room table, and the back bedroom.... Good thing Andrew isn't sleeping there anymore. Every thing cleaned up nicely, though, once we closed the windows!