We had to look long and hard to find a place in OK where we could live as if we were in the center of a doughnut----a dry doughnut, where the hole gets no rain while the rest of the doughnut gets rain, flash floods, etc. (grin) I bet we couldn't find another location like this one if we tried. You'd think we were deliberately trying to find a place that the rain seems to mysteriously miss time after time. This time, though, it was just a matter of timing----the rain just took its own sweet time to make it to us. It gets old to sit and watch the numbers grow on the rainfall map for everywhere else. I just quit watching after a while because if you think about it for too long, it is depressing. Yesterday I watched it rain to our north, west, and south....... So, overnight it must have started raining here. Then, it drizzled for hours today. Hours and hours and hours. Slow, steady, at times barely-discernible raindrops. The nice thing was that the clouds and rain-cooled air kept our temperatures down today. I doubt we made it out of the 70s, and if we did, it wasn't for long. So, I watched the radar-indicated rainfall maps on my computer inside the house and wasn't impressed. It showed about 0.3" for us after the rain finally ended. After the rain stopped, I stepped outside and we had gigantic puddles everywhere, so I knew the mere 0,30" was incorrect. I splashed my way through the mud and the muck and the puddles to the back garden to check the rain gauge. From the size of the puddles, I knew we had received at least an inch, no matter what the mesonet's radar-indicated rainfall map said. Well, we got right at 1.3" and later in the day I noticed lots of big puddles in town too, so they got about as much as we did. Hooray! We needed rain so desperately. The ground was cracking in the back yard and I was going to have to water heavily to stop the cracks from advancing. Hopefully the rain just did that for me. Unfortunately, y'all know the drill.......on the days we're going to be in the 90s this week as we await the arrival of the next cold front, I bet we will have some awfully high heat index numbers, thanks to all the rain that fell today. Still, I'd rather have rain than not have it. We also have a great chance of rain later in the week, with at least a 50% chance on one day.

I bought a ten-year old car a couple of months ago, didn't ask the former owner how long since undercoating, thought I should undercoat it, it was to snow today, so I wondered about just staying home, to keep from getting sand and salt up there. There's been some rain, not freezing and only a couple of inches of now, and they had the sand and salt trucks out in the city. And long lineups of slowly moving cars, though there's only a small amount of snow ... but it is slippery. I hope I can get a thorough washing of the underside of the body, if I find that it hasn't been undercoated for a few years and needs it. ole joyful

Maryl - You wondered if Facemaker would be whiter in the heat. It's not. It's more yellow than cream with the heat and humidity. Those photos you saw that made the petal color look white were not reality. They were either the result of people using cameras that tend to "blue" everything up, or it was caused by light blowback. I didn't photograph it this morning because one petal wasn't fully open. Pinks and purples are still my top favorites. I've acquired more reds because I'm hybridizing with them. Having gotten good results from my red breeding, I wanted more reds to cross with my red seedlings. I do tend to like the reds more and more each year though. oranges too.. Debra

I like Eenie Weenie. One of the first daylilies I grew in a pot. I put it in the ground, but it looked lost in the other plants, so I put it back in a pot on my outdoor table. Had it for many many years and shared it with lots of visitors........I like Quasar Cutie too. I can see the blue in the pattern......I was this close to getting Stephanie Returns. I think it was yours that I kept seeing year after year and liked so much. In the end, no room in the inn. I hope you post it again. I like seeing it..............Maryl