thunderstorms

I woke up this morning to the sound of pouring rain.  Earlier, there had been quite a thunderstorm "concert", but I was able to go back to sleep. The rain, however, woke me up.  The drain at the end of our street decided to clog and the water was ankle deep when hubby left for work.  Oh yay.  The sun is now trying to make an appearance and is being more or less successful right now.

One of the pages I "like" on FB (Hudson Valley Weather) posted that if we had gotten this amount of rain in the equivalent of snow (say, like in January or February) we would have gotten 300" of snow!  Enough already, send the rain to Texas, where they need it.  Our ground is saturated, and the grass is way to green for this time of year. Another thing all this rain has done is breed mosquitoes!  The bees, while always pesky this time of year, are really being annoying, since all the flowers have been washed away.  I can only hope that all this rain isn't any indication of the amount of snow that we're going to get this winter.  <shudder>

So, I've been on a "see food" diet this week.  I'm trying to curtail it, and drink non or low cal fluids instead of eating today.  So, far, I've downed almost 2 liters of grape sugar free drink.  I guess that's better than eating a bag of cookies or chips?  I don't know if I can repair what damage I've done this week, but hopefully, but stemming the tide, I can get back on program and do what needs to be done.

In the meantime, daughter #2 is home for a long weekend.  She's doing laundry now, and will then take a shower.  It's only a little after noon, so I guess I should be grateful she's up and moving!