It's Raining

Well it looks like fall has finally reached these parts. The summer was one of the hottest and driest in the history of record keeping. All the little democrats are running around in circles pulling their hair out and shouting “global warming, Bush caused it and is trying to destroy the world.” So I finally got tired of it and opted out of the media world. I only watch TV for sports or some social redeeming program like “The Little People” or “The Biggest Loser”. And of course, I haven’t had much time for TV. With no rain since March or April and temps in the 90’s I have spent the entire summer, except for trips to the doctor, on the golf course. Yep, you heard me. Bente and I have played at least 5 times a week all summer, with a couple weeks off when her niece, Line (pronounced Lean-Ah) and her friend Soren (pronounced Sir-un), was here in August. Those two weeks we spent a lot of time trying to teach Line and Soren to play golf between trips to Gatlinburg, Tenn. and D.C. It was a really fun time.

As I said; no rain in about 6 months. I heard somewhere that we were 22 inches below our normal rain fall. All I know is that I only had to mow 3 times this summer. The yard is now, or was Monday, a fine layer of dust that shifted back and forth across the property. Today it is a mud puddle. Yep, since Tuesday we have had a little over 7 inches of rain in little old State Road. A real welcome sight, even if I can’t go play golf. I was by the club house early today and overheard, I’m sure he was a democrat, crying that it was not enough, Bush made it stop raining, we are still in a drought and the world is coming to an end. So I didn’t eat lunch there, but came home and had a peanut butter sandwich and am waiting for the rain to stop so I can go play golf.

I was getting a little worried about the “no rain” because several town in the state were announcing that there was only 40 days or 20 days or something like that of water remaining in their reservoirs and the Governor announced a statewide ban on washing cars at home and all sorts of other things. I was sure he was going to get to the golf courses sooner or later. So we really needed water. Not for my yard but for the golf course. The yard is fine. The crabgrass and weeds will be back next spring and I’ll have to mow it twice a week until the heat kills it again. But since I have almost given up all vices except golf, the course must stay green.

Yeah, I know 7 inches is not going to break the drought but as I am writing this it is pouring buckets out there. So who knows when it will stop or how much over 7 inches we will get. Anyway it will go a long way to filling the lakes on the course and keeping the confounded rough 3 to 4 inches high and the fairways and green plush; those 7+ inches and the 100,000 gallons we are pumping on it every night from the wells and lakes on the course.

So I am content to take a few days off and read a book and think about all the things I could be doing it is was dry like clean out the garage or painting the front porch of replacing the back door.

And I can’t wait for the weather to clear up so I can go golfing!