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Saturday morning. 9:30. Connor and Logan have just gone out the door to play in the backyard. I’m still polishing off a delicious waffle and steaming milk for my latte. Megan yells "Oh" and I turn to see Connor bolting for the kitchen door as rain begins to fall. Megan sccops up Logan just in time to outrun the deluge. Within five seconds the sky opens wide and sheets of rain fall. Connor loves the rain and wants to run around outside but needs an umbrella first.

I think Connor is so fascinated with the rain in Houston for two reasons: it rains much more often than in So Cal and it rains much harder. I am fascinated by the rain in Texas for another reason–thunder! It seems strange if you have never lived in southern California but thunderstorms are almost unheard of. I think I heard thunder about three times during my six years in California. It was an odd sensation to realize I had not heard any thunder after the first 6 or 7 months of residence. I think it took that long because it only rains in the winter.  They also don’t get tornado warnings, but I didn’t miss those.

As an aside, I was going to mow the lawn today but looks like I’ll be waiting till things dry out. 

I must apologize to anyone who has been visiting this site regularly expecting to see a new post only to disappointed time and time again. I have have been quite lazy in my posting. Of course, I have an excuse–it involves a van full of Libyans, a modified DeLorean, and stolen plutonium–but I don’t really have time to go into details.

Quick break-down of the month’s events: we travelled to visit friends, my parents spent a week with us in Galveston, Megan’s dad and his family (from Australia) spent a week with us, I had a week-long conference, the rest was sleeping.

I’ll have some more interesting things to say in the coming days, I imagine. For now, let’s just consider this post a warm up. I’m getting back into the swing of things. We’ll see how it goes.