Just missed it!

We were within two days of breaking the record for the longest stretch of over 100F days in a row.  We made it to 40 days and had to have 42 to set the new record.

Thursday we only got up to 97, it stayed pretty cloudy most of the day.   I actually saw a copied TWEET on the weather Thursday night where someone had 'tweeted' the TV station stating that "we should be rewarded for making it 40 days."  Rewarded? Rewarded from Mother Nature?  Is it just me or was that sort of a stupid remark?  Maybe I'll think differently when we all get a quarter under our pillow.

It was back up to 103 again on Friday.  You see what we get when we start feeling entitled.  I'm just glad it wasn't 113.

Yesterday I woke up to the sound of the carbon monoxide alarm going off.  Nah, we didn't have any carbon monoxide in our house.  I knew better because we weren't burning anything in the fireplace.  If anything Jody was trying to freeze something we could hang beef in the living room it's so cold in this house.  The alarm was going off because there wasn't any electricity going through it.  It's the kind of alarm that plugs into the wall.  When there's a power failure it has a battery backup that will beep.  We'd only lost power.  It happens every week in our neighborhood, and no we weren't having rolling black outs.  Texas, at least North Texas hasn't had to do that yet.

Jody thinks that maybe the Electric Company chose 5:30 AM on a Saturday to shut down to replace something in the hood.  It came back on 2 1/2 hours later.  What we did notice besides the beeping alarm was that it was raining!  RAIN!!!!  We haven't had rain since May!

We had almost forgotten what it sounded like.  Gracie was freaked out by it.  She's still bothered by the dew on the grass this morning.  She'd gotten so used to laying in the cool green what's left of it grass early in the morning.

She'll lay all stretched out cooling her belly, thinking she's hiding in the tall grass.

It's been so dry we don't even get dew.  We had a nice slow steady rain for about 4 hours, ended up getting about 3/4 inch that washed all the dust off the leaves.  The plants were starting to look like fake trees at Garden Ridge.

So I guess that Tweeter could consider the rain a reward.  They're probably still looking for a quarter though.