The local weather forecast is filled with rain for the next week, and while some folks may dislike the seemingly day after day of wet weather, I for one embrace it – for a number of reasons. First off, there’s my garden. I plant a few raised beds every year, and the daily dose of liquid sunshine keeps me from having to manually water in my seedlings and young plants. At this time of year, they will take all the…
As many of you may know, in addition to the writing I do here on the blog, I also enjoy writing novels, short stories, and other freelance articles. Years ago I started writing a collection of scary short stories that I’m hoping to eventually publish in book form. My theme is water – all of the stories have water in them as sort of story element. The anthology (called “Dark Water Tales”) is still a work in progress, but since…
They say “April showers bring May flowers”. I don’t know what they say about rain in May, but for Maryland at least, this past week the mantra has been “enough already”. According to this month’s weather statistics, Hagerstown has received 3.55 inches of rain so far this month. I’d say most of that has come in the past week. The rain culminated in a freak storm this past Thursday that dumped an incredible amount of water on Southern Washington County…