Lisa's Lounge

Texans are funny about their weather. First of all, I'm about as Texan as you can get. My Great-Great-Great-Grandfather was born in Tennessee, but all those dudes after that were born right here in Tejas! (pronounced Tay-Hoss) And even better I'm an Austinite. Which is a "whole other country" from the rest of this redneck state.

Anyway, we love the weather. It changes easily every five minutes. We discourage people from moving here with the weather card. This summer is really a typical Austin summer. 100 degree days for days and days and weeks and weeks. It really won't start cooling off til October. Please tell that to everyone you know.

So back to the weather. Last "summer" - and I put that in quotation marks because summer begins in April and ends in October - we had lots of rain. So much that I think I only had to water the yard once or twice. (Not too shabby when you live in a 6 month summer climate) We did not hit 100 degrees that I know of. Then along comes "summer" 2008. 100 degrees EVERY day. My neighbor's yard looks like really old inedible hay. She's been out of town most of our "summer".

Today I get a call at the office from... BEN! I was on the phone, but he told my co-worker "Tell Lisa to roll up her windows - the rain is coming". We had a serious gully washer today! it was so awesome. And what makes it even better? We had a good rain yesterday as well.

We Texans are proud of our weather. Among other things...