What a difference a year makes. Just two weeks into making this blog, I was commenting on the torrential rains soaking the area; it rained for six straight days after I made my trip home from Arizona.
This year, we're in the midst of a 15-day drought. Nowhere near the record I remember in my lifetime (29 days), but this year I think my father sent his weather my way. Last year, for instance, in the entire growing season, I used my water sprinkler twice. This year, I've already used it four times. Had I not, and someone tossed hot ashes into the affected grass... you never know, and I couldn't take a chance.
What makes it even funnier was, it was during our last rain spell earlier this month where Garden City imposed watering restrictions. I was banging my head, saying "why?" Now all I can do is give them credit for forthsight.
Weather as a whole, throughout the country, has been wild. You either have torrential rains & unprecedented flooding in the Oklahoma / Texas / Kansas area, or you have a dried-up Everglades in Florida, or wildfires rushing through California. The island where Steve and his ex-wife were married in 2003 literally burned up in whole earlier this year, which made for a brutally funny Steve monologue about his ex.
We critcize Michigan for its economic woes, and they are well-deserved. But thank goodness we have the Great Lakes as a natural resource surrounding us. I would hate to think if Michigan was smack-dab in the middle of the country with the lack of rain we've had.
Never take a resource for granted.
