A Whole Bunch of Confusing News

Good morning! We should be due for an article in the media about how much the heat wave is helping or hurting the economy. Tropical Storm Debby failed to come west as predicted, choosing instead to dump the ocean on top of Florida. A foot of rain might be enough to help out with the fires in the Rocky Mountain west, though not all at once of course. A foot of rain is a bit short of half what some Florida locations got in a day from the big storm. We received some rain yesterday, but had to watch closely and be paying attention to see it. August is generally the time when we become 'the brown lands' but this year June is well-browned. The wheat harvest should be complete by Independence Day, an unusual year already and getting stranger by the day. And, we wonder how hot July may be, our hottest month on average each year. June saw many new heat records set including our all-time high - on two consecutive days. The High Park fire lost its place in the news to the Waldo Canyon fire in the same state. Our Air Force Academy is threatened; maybe their mates in the big planes can bomb the fire out. The High Park fire grew up into the square-mile range as the acres-burned total became too unwieldy to report. But, gas prices are down and continue to get better. The economic news has been pushed out by the fires and torrential rains, and we haven't had to hear about celebrities and their excesses for a while. Praise the Lord for that.

One heat record exceeded in June was at 104° set in 1954, the all-time record low for June is 28° set just three days before that other reading. That should remind us of how quickly our weather can change out here. We are not in charge of all this weather and news, but we can come to the Lord in prayer, and not only for rain or moderate temperatures. What the evil powers of the world may rule, God can overrule. We feel the drought, but God may have rain clouds just over the horizon. Heat and drought can go into the history books as quickly as they arrived. We may have a record-breaking winter of snows and cold. No, I don't expect things in the weather to turn around that quickly either, but I'm not in charge.

Oops, the paws are twitching; must be a really good dream. Maybe this heat wave is just a bad dream and we can get on with our normal June weather.

Bucky