Ever since I've been here (9 years), Abilene has been in a drought. It's hot and dry- except this year. We are 17 inches over normal rain for the year. Hurricanes usually do Abilene good. They don't reach us, except with some rain, which we usually need. But the latest to flitter nearby gave us 6 inches Thurs.-Sat. and overfilled our lakes South and North of town. The creeks which run North and South, whose job it is to siphon the water from the south to the north didn't know what to do with all the influx and spewed into the streets. I was actually headed out of town, when my travel mates took a potty break and we spotted city crews a few streets over blocking off roads. When we found out they had evacuated 3 streets over, I decided to stay put instead of leaving Brian with two young children and an anxiety filled neighbor in a wheelchair. The water ended up floading to the street behind us, but ours stayed dry. So we were thankful.
The water Ivan is splashing in is from the rain, not the flood waters which carry all sorts of crazy illness causing bacteria. Dominique has discovered fashion apparently and had to go out into the muck with her jewelry on.
She has not however discovered refined taste in her clothing accessories as she covered her head in supper. Ivan had to imitate her, but chose a clean dish- smart boy there. I think I'd actually take a dirty diaper over picking food out of her hair- so nasty.
Brian has been practicing for a gig and Ivan has been writing songs. His latest is about spankings. I don't think Brian will be able to use any of it. We did catch it on video however. So stay tuned ;)
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One of my favorite memories is of running out with only a bathing suit on during a pounding rainstorm to play on a hill of mud.
We can relate to the amount of rain this year. Erin was wet, and very thankful Dean stayed way south. I hope I never have to experience 165 mile an hour winds! Ivan and Dominique, Nana got to "play" in the water holes also. Oh, what fun!
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