We are finally getting some rain. It started a little before 8AM. So far it has been a nice gentle rain. After a little over two hours of it I am just starting to notice a trickle running down our sloping, hard packed, gravel driveway. It is pretty amazing that it was so dry that two hours worth of rain soaked into the hard packed gravel.
The rain is supposed to let up, maybe stop, this afternoon and then really come down tonight. Forecasts are that we might get as much as 2-3 inches. Most of it will come down slow enough so that a lot of it will soak in. I bet the fish in our small pond are loving some fresh oxygenated water.
Yesterday I started digging through one of several "board piles". At one time it contained 20-30 rough sawn 2x6's that were 12-13' long. A few of them still appear to be OK but most now have bad spots somewhere along their length, or they are so bowed that they are only good for firewood. I moved the good ones inside. I have a few more to sort through in this pile and another couple of piles of boards that don't appear to be good for anything but firewood. At least they will make some easy to stack firewood, but I doubt that they will have a lot of heat value.
Yesterday, after the board pile work, Kathy and I went into town and, after a nice lunch at one of the local Mexican restaurants, we went to an "antique/junk/second hand" store to pick up a bedframe (head board, foot board, bed rails) and a couple of night stands, for the downstairs bedroom. She still hasn't found anything, at least anything worth the money, for our bedroom. We just have the boxsprings and mattress we bought sitting on the floor, plus a couple of misc tables for night stands. We don't have box spring nor mattress for the bedframe she just bought. I think the plan is to move the one we just bought down there and get another new set for our bedroom. The set we bought does not agree with her back.
Kathy is on her way to Indy to dog sit, and chicken sit, for Doug and Anthony. They are heading out this afternoon, pulling the travel trailer, for a weekend vacation. Kathy left at 5 AM. She called a few minutes ago and was between Decatur and Champaign. She had stopped at Eleanor Walkers, a friend from our time in Niantic, and had a good visit with her. She took the route north through Mexico, MO and Springfield, IL, rather than through St. Louis. She missed driving in all the rain that she would have hit had she gone through St. Louis.
I will probably just "veg" today. I can handle that without much problem <GRIN>.
Have a great day. May God bless you and yours.
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