June 12: More Rain and More Books

Day 33

It rained somewhere between 3 and 5 inches last night. Clint literally took a shower outside (it was dark and we have a secluded backyard so there was nothing untoward about this). This means we've received somewhere between 10 and 15 inches of rain in the last week. As you might imagine, the creek I went swimming in last week has now turned into a river. For all of you who are back in Missouri...imagine the Meramec River on a float trip when it's not been totally dry all summer - that's what's happening in my backyard right now!

I took this picture this morning on the bridge that leads to and from my house. This view is actually on the opposite side of the bridge from our house, but the water is much prettier on that side. I don't think I'll be doing any more swimming until the water goes down a bit, but Clint does want to get out our canoe, Beatrice. I also think inter-tubing on the creek could be fun.

This is the creek on our side. A ton of debris floated down and started to dam up the bridge last night. The creek is probably only a couple of feet below the bridge at this point. Along with the rain, we had hail - about the size of marbles - and we just kept thinking how glad we were that we have our carport now to protect our cars from the hail.

Any more rain and I'm not sure I'll be able to make it to work in the mornings, as most of the routes to our house involve bridges.

Today I'm purging a book that I read recently. It's a chapter book for elementary school students called The Doll People. This is evidently the first in a series that I have no interest in continuing. I picked up this book second hand because it is co-written by Ann M. Martin, who wrote the Baby Sitter's Club books. I have a pretty big collection of BSC books. Along with the Golden Girls, the BSC is one thing I can go back to again and again for either nostalgic or soothing reasons. I say without shame that the BSC books are the only books I can read before bed. They put me straight to sleep.

For some reason, I've been having trouble taking focused pictures of things without the flash. Most of my non-flash pictures are fuzzy, but I don't know how to change that.