Green Leaf Report

The Texas monsoon season has finally slowed to an occasional drizzle.  After two years of intensive drought and day after day of record-setting heat, the record-setting rains arrived in north and central Texas; we haven’t seen rain like this in almost 100 years.  So far this year, we’ve received 30 inches more than the normal 15 inches of precipitation.  The withering heat of Dallas summers still hasn’t arrived, as of mid-July. It’s very nice- the weather reminds me of New Orleans, with cooling rains almost every afternoon.  Every time someone around me comments that global warming is a bunch of hooey and it isn’t even hot this summer, I reply that this rain is just all of the melting Arctic ice coming down and cooling us off.  And that’s how we can tell an optimist from a pessimist.  Or an idealist from a realist. 

One of my colleagues mentioned that their two-story gazebo on Lake Texoma, near the Oklahoma border, is completely underwater except for the roof.  That gazebo roof was recently hit by a floating boat-house.  It may be time to look into buying a solar ark.