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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Sage; I wish I could send you some of our weather!! We had a couple weeks of 
'summer', now we are back in the cool and rainy weather. It rains almost 
every day, and will barely get into the 70's (40's at night) this week. 
Everything is always wet; the grass never dries, so I have to wear boots 
whenever I go out.  I walked to the truck today, and there were millions of 
slugs on the sidewalk...couldn't avoid stepping on them. Ick.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] [BULK] Texas Drought


> Thanks for asking Rob.
>
> It's terrible here. We've had nearly 3 months of temps between 103-110.
> Most days it's been around 106, with high humidity (39-70% and we're
> used to 11-22%) yet it won't rain. We've lost a lot of fruit trees and
> shrubs and half our lawn, plus a chicken to heat exhaustion. This is the
> hottest, driest 24 months on record since 1885 when record keeping began
> for our area and much of the Hill Country, including Austin and San 
> Antonio.
>
> Our well is entirely dry. I am able to straddle the Frio River. Here's
> some pics of both and stories on my blog:
>
> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2009/08/standing-on-both-banks-and-when-well.html
> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2009/08/send-rain.html
> http://flowerweaver.blogspot.com/2009/08/water-canto.html
>
> Old timers say our well has never gone dry, even in the 1953 drought
> which Elmer Kelton wrote about in his novel "The Year It Never Rained"
> set in a fictitious town near here. They all agree this is the worst
> they recall. Most of our neighbor's wells went dry a month before ours.
> Our closest neighbor just spent $15,000 to drill a 790 foot well. We
> don't have the money to drill another right now, and there's a 3 week
> wait if we did. The neighbors have kindly passed a hose through the
> fence and we are trying to make do with that. I water the gardens in the
> morning, and haul 5 gallon buckets to the house for flushing toilets,
> cleaning, hand washing our clothes, watering the animals all afternoon.
> My husband just finished building an outdoor shower. Watering has become
> my new full time job.
>
> Today was the first day we did not break 100, it was only 97 and that,
> sadly, felt good. Fall usually doesn't get here until October. Unless a
> hurricane gets into the gulf, I don't know if we'll get rain.
> Considering I've been through the 2002 and 2004 "500 year" floods where
> I saw 29 inches of rain in a day, this is so weird. It's either feast or
> famine.
>
> --Sage
>
>
>
> Robert Walton wrote:
> > > --Sage
> > > Way Out in Texas with a Bone Dry Well
> >
> > I'd been wondering after I was reading about the drought in Texas. How 
> > are
> > you faring?
> >
> > Rob - Va
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