Observatorio Del Nazas

With all the doom and gloom attached to the global warming outcry, who would of thought that we would have the coolest July on record with only a couple of days over 90 degrees. The month just past was also very wet which makes for very nice weather as far as I am concerned. I love the cool wet weather, and that is not something that I have seen a lot of in my lifetime. I lived in Western Oklahoma for the first 28 years of my life then moved to Arizona for 10 years so the last 11 years in Tennessee have been wonderful as far as the weather is concerned. Let us hope it is another mild winter and then all will be well in my little world.

The seasons first hurricane is dropping some rain on us today, it was almost like we were not going to have a hurricane season this year. In a normal year we get affected by 3-4 hurricanes a year and it is late for us to have the first hurricane of the season in August. I do not mind the rain that we get we need it, but the winds make it hard to work at times but today was not bad and I hope the rest of the hurricane season goes just like today.

With all the rain over the weekend we wound up with a leak in our basement. The water got into a lot of the boxes and got a lot of our treasures wet. Some of that stuff had been in the basement for twenty years, a real shame for it to get wet most of it will have to be thrown away and that is a tragedy. Lets hope the rain lets up for a couple of days so we can get it all taken outside and go through it to see what we can salvage if any thing. Then we will have to get the leak fixed and that could cost a mint.

Lit the grill tonight to put some chicken on there and of course it started to rain. I guess any one that needs some rain could just pay me to fire up the grill and in a snap you have instant rain. I do not care I have been going out to check on the chicken in the rain and just as I get ready to take it off the grill it stops raining. Who would of figured that? I guess a little rain is better than a lot of rain and way better than no rain at all, so now that I have shut the grill off it can rain all it wants.

The city of Murfreesboro is feeling the pain after the tornadoes hit that fine city on Friday, over 200 homes and business were damaged and 2 people killed when their house fell on them trying to get to their car. From time to time we get a huge amount of bad weather and late last week was an example of that. Today the weather forecasters are calling for bad weather again, lets hope that they are wrong and we can get back to living our lives with out the storms that we get here in Middle Tennessee from time to time.