I'm sitting here blogging in bed because tonight a drama unfolded of epic proportions that rocked my tiny world. I could make this long story short but screw that. It all started about 2:00 in the afternoon when my friend Rita and I, upon checking the satellite map, noticed a hair-thin line of clouds forming down near Wichita, KS. As the afternoon ( Read more... )

Okay so tonight the weather has turned very serious. Odd for a day in which we had only a glancing chance of thunderstorms. The storms aren't actually very widespread but they are "training" right over the top of me which is never good. My basement and garage are flooding like crazy and our street was almost completely covered with rushing ( Read more... )

Okay so why is it that every time I go camping lately God tries to smite me? This past weekend was the SCA Horse and Falcon tournament. It's at Smithville Lake at the same campground that the War of the Lillies is held on that I camped at last year. If this campout taught us anything, it showed that Rita will not fare well in the heat of Lillies ( Read more... )