Rain Storm

Wow, we had a storm plow through last night that was a humdinger. It woke me up at 2:30 AM with rain pounding on the bedroom window. Sounded like it was gonna come right on in. The storm was not unexpected but its fierceness was greatly impressive.

But the rain was welcome. We always seem to forget the desert is only a hundred miles or so west of us. Yes, a lot of folks would not classify it as desert but it is dry, full of cactus and mesquite, good for cows and oil wells. Another hundred miles and the permian basin starts and that is oil personified. Those poor Texans, a few scrony cows, a lot of mesquite trees and many oil wells. T. Boone Pickens country.

We here in good old Weatherford are suffering through the gas boom. Pretty soon everybody will have a gas well. Things have slowed down, the price of energy has declined and all of us that drive are pleased. But that has also slowed down the gas drilling operations. It has not stopped the building of new banks though. Weatherford is a growing town, and recently has had two new shopping areas and a host of new banks sprung up. The good news is that there are a lot of new eating places and the locals seem to lap that up.

So far the gas boom has lifted all boats so to speak. Everybody seems to be prospering and there are new hire signs posted here and there. Of course, the new hires are in the new eating places and do not pay that much but at least it shows the recession has not pounced on us yet. Still a new house here and there being built. One house has sold in our neighborhood and one new one under construction. Pretty soon only two vacant lots will be available, one next to us and one across the way. Not likely to sell as they are very expensive.

Until next time. . . .