Just taking a minute to check in and say I haven't died.

Lately I've been doing more writing than usual but not in this forum. This is a good thing, a stretching thing, and it consumes more than the little bit of time I actually have to do it. Which means I'm always running behind, but what else is new? One project is an on my own Bible study. I'm treating the study questions as journal entries and have discovered lots of things while writing that I didn't know about myself. I'm also doing some interesting reading and for me that takes lots of time. I picked up my camera for the first time in several weeks. I have so many pictures that I haven't downloaded that finding out what to throw away could take awhile.

Matt is officially a high school junior. A little over a week ago we watched him run in two state track races. He didn't win; he didn't come close. Still it was a positive step over last year when he didn't make it that far. His coach told him to take two weeks off, but of course he didn't. He's back at it again happily planning to burn up all the courses during next fall's cross country season. Also when we received his report card we were happy with the steady improvement in grades. Now that college admissions people will be scrutinizing his grades and scores for the next year and a half, they need to see upward trends. Of course he only thinks college coaches will be watching his downward running times. Ah well. Whatever it takes to get schools to pay him to come.

My grass is crunchy! Every summer we go through a period of time when the grass is brittle, but not this early in the season. Pray for rain... nice gentle rain for days and days. I heard on the news that because of the drought we'll soon be paying more for milk and beef because farmers are having a difficult time finding enough hay to feed their animals. Oh joy. Does anyone know a rain dance. Matt washed my car a few days ago but the skies didn't take the bait. I hate the think that it might take a hurricane to shove this weather pattern into the Atlantic.