The Sun is Flooding in . .

Yes, the sun is flooding in the back door that opens on to the patio. The door faces directly Southeast, so old sol has moved into the fall/winter quardant. So when there are no clouds we get a very brightly lit kitchen early in the AM.

Had a tremendous thunderstorm last night at about three AM. The thunder woke me up and then I even heard a little hail rattle the windows. When I got the newspaper this morning, I noted Judie's long down spouts had gushed out a lot leaves alll over the sidewalk. So there was a lot of water.

We need the rain, the lake, Lake Weatherford, is down about four feet or so. That is kind of normal for this time of year, but with fall comes the rainy season and so the lake is being recharged. Last year, the lake got down about nine feet, a huge amount. This year it has only receded about four feet, we had a few recharging rains during the year. And I guess they have cut off all the well drillers from soaking up water to fracture the gas wells.

As I look out the front window I note the Red Oaks leaves are begining to turn, soom they will fall off. We have two of them out front, same age, put in by the builder. They are about 8 inches at the base right now. I know it is genitics but one looses it leaves about three weeks before the other one. And puts on leaves in the spring ahead of the other one too. Same genusis but a little different DNA.

The Post Oaks out back are showing signs of turning to fall too. The Hackberry's, trash trees but are mature thus provide shade where there would otherwise be none, have been shedding their leaves for some time now. Judie mowed the yard and spent an inordinate amount of time running over the leaves turning them to mulch. Pretty soon the lawn tractor will be winterized and parked until spring.

It is November and we do usually get a snow about Thanksgiving Day. Then the next snow is well into January or February. And that is about the extent of our snows. We get more rains than snows. And about every four or five years we get a good ice storm, we are due for one this year.