Thursday, August 6, 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009
It rained off and on through the night, and my rain gauge indicates I received a ¼ of an inch. The rain clouds are broken and drifting southeast while NWS is still predicting a 70% chance of a thunderstorm today.
I spent the morning cleaning up my work area in the sunroom and doing computer work and research. One or two emails always seem to demand I go to a web site for information and then I end up going to another and another and . . . it is never ending.
I have a chiropractor appointment for 2 O’clock today, so I’ll head into town and fill a couple of gas cans, dump my trash, pick up my mail, and do some shopping at Safeway. If the thunderstorm does come to fruition this afternoon, I won’t be able to get anything done outside, and I usually don’t get much done on days I have to go to town anyway.
While I was in town, coming out of Safeway, the sky opened up and dumped tons of water. The drains in the parking lot, and the rest of town, couldn’t keep up with it and water was ankle deep in the parking lot and even deeper in the city streets. Town got most of the rain from this particular storm, as it was wet in Marysville and at the cabin, but nothing like in Helena. My rain gauge was still at a quarter of an inch, so I know not much fell at home.
As I knew would happen, we didn’t get home until 6:30, after stopping to visit with Mary and Guy. Mary had written me that they acquired another dog, and he resembled their old Golden Retriever, Bear. A cousin had just moved to the area and couldn’t find a place to rent that accepts pets, so had to find a home for him. His name is Charlie and he is a 2-½ year-old Golden Retriever. He is more active, due to his age, but gets along well with their Black Lab, Bella, so has made himself at home.
Once back home, I unloaded and put away the groceries, played with Zack, fed him and Zoey, sat down to read the mail and then showered before dinner.