HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Viking, you made me laugh out loud with your comments—the suicide-by-cop and lottery liners!
I’m very glad all is well with you, your family and your rain reception! :-)
Yeah, my mother-of-invention irrigation system has kept things going, but a little of God's rain can go a long way, too. I have so many tomatoes right now, I don't know if we can can them fast enough. We already had to freeze about four quarts of cherry tomatoes, and we have at least another five pounds of cherry and San Marzano fruit in containers and on the windowsill, with more on the way. The wife is starting to stew them in quart Mason jars with onion, green pepper, garlic, a touch of Splenda for sweetness, and some fresh basil out of the garden. Italian gazpacho. LOL
"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920