Radar Love

6/20/07 - 4th Day - Morning. It had started to dry up from our much appreciated weekend rains, and the weather prognosticators were calling for hot and humid weather, but no rain for a week. Well, we were awakened this morning between 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. by a strong outflow boundary (we learn our weather here in Texas) with a wall of wind that shook the cabin. Checking the radar I saw a wall of storms covering about 1/2 of Texas, with some mesocyclones and some vortex signatures. Well, I sent Danielle and the children down to the root cellar and we all watched the storm blow through dumping some more rain on us. Now, don't get me wrong, we'll take the rain - the gardens can always use it, and I had used some of the catch water for filling animal troughs, and it is always good to keep the catchwaters full. But it sure makes it hard to get up and get to work when you are up for a few hours in the night. Danielle just came in and said we received a bit less than 1/4 of an inch - which was just enough to top off the catchwaters again.

The humidity has been abnormally high, and with temps in the mid-90's yesterday I decided to take the children down to the pond where we all jumped in to cool off. That was nice, though it reminded me that I need to do a lot of work on the pond to make it hold more water and to make it more conducive for swimming.

In other news, we had a great supper last night of squash, zucchini, and tomatoes from the garden - cooked with sausage and put over a bed of white rice. This is the time of year I love the most, when every meal is some culinary delight gleaned from the gardens and from our own meat supply. I haven't learned how to grow rice yet, but we looked into it one time, and it can be done provided enough water can be supplied. Apparently a lot of rice is grown down in the valley in South Texas.

Summer starts tomorrow.

Your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker