I think the rain is finally moving out. We had a few sprinkles yesterday and it was misting this morning, but the forecast has dropped to only a 40% chance of showers today. After more than 17 inches of the wet stuff in a week, I’m ready for it to be gone!
The pond held up well through the heavy rains. At one point the road was completely flooded and water was pouring over the spillway making it difficult to get into the pasture, but things have already drained off considerably. It’s now up to full capacity after being as low as we’ve seen it since it was constructed.
My husband celebrated his birthday this past week. I cooked steaks for the actual day, then two of our kids came over last night for an additional celebratory dinner.
On Thursday evening a friend and I attended a lecture series at our local community college. The speaker for the event was best selling author Charlaine Harris, creator of the Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Series on which the HBO series True Blood is based. The hour long program consisted of her sharing a bit about her history and writing methods then the floor was opened for a question and answer session. Based on many of the questions, I would say a good portion of the crowd was there because of True Blood. I’ve only read her books and really have no desire to watch the TV series. In fact, after hearing her speak, I’d really like to read some of her other books. Overall it was a very entertaining and informative evening.
- Kelly
- Making my way through the ups and downs of life, holding fast to my favorite Bible verse: "For we walk by faith, not by sight." ~2 Corinthians 5:7. I began blogging in earnest at Yahoo360 on October 24, 2005. (briefly using LiveJournal and blog-city prior to that) In June 2008 I moved to Blogger. I'm now at WordPress where I hope to remain.
3 comments:
I'm glad your rain is slacking off. My baby brother live about a hundred miles from you and he's been complaining about the rain, too, because he can't work when it rains. We're all cloudy and humid today down here, but so far, no wet stuff.
The Charlaine Harris thing sounds like it was fun. I'm wanting to try her other series, too, if I can find them at the library. From what others have told me about the 2nd season of TrueBlood, it's all made up, about the Maened woman mostly, who only had like 3 pages in the books. I much prefer the books, too. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Blessings!
We're actually having spurts of sunshine today. Still mostly cloudy and hazy, but at least it's not raining! We had a couple of brief showers late yersterday afternoon.
I'm really ready for some drying out! Looks like we're in for some more rain eary in the week.
Glad you got to hear Charlaine again!!
A belated happy birthday to your husband, Kelly.
It's a lovely day here in Newcastle as well which is nice as it's our 23rd wedding anniversary but also The Great North Run which is an annual half marathon run in September.
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