Wunderground Map Stare

Yea, that's water. We call it the mini-riverton

If you don’t use the wunderground map, you should. It’s the best interactive map on the internet for storm cell watching. Personally, I’ve logged several hours watching it as the storms have passed over our area. For the moment, we’re not in immediate danger, but as a portion of the lower side of the Grayson County area, we’re under a future-cast warning…argggg

That means “buckling down the hatches and finding shelter,” possibly, and it means there is another storm cell on its way. There is, also, future possibilities of losing the lights, having a front yard—already saturated—slopping down the hill into the neighbor’s yard as our neighbor to the east watches his yard slop into ours.

My plants, outside slowly sinking under the weight of our too-chlorinated water—have begun to perk, right up, with all the natural rain water they’ve received. Of course this could be a temporary situation if it does not cease the downpours of the last month or more. Have you ever seen pepper plants and spice plants with little floaties on their tiny green limbs? It’s looking like a real possibility.

I’m getting screen stare as I watch the wunderground map advance weather upon us that is unwelcomed, at best, down- right dangerous, at worst. So…my afternoon plans include watching the weather map, listening to two little girls howl if there is thunder in the sky, and thinking how sweet it will be to get back-side burn when the triple-digit temps hit Texas.

Within the next two weeks, at some point, we will be outside mowing the excess of Johnson-stobs down and cursing the sky for dropping water all over our yard…nah, we’ll just plug in the MP3 players and mow the hills and valleys left from too much rain water, the neighbor’s yard, and the large weeds we loving clip down and feel proud to have. Proud, because it covers the black clay that would otherwise create more dust for the house.