Earlier this summer I saw a box of juice pops in the frozen food case at the grocery store. “Yum. Just the thing for a hot summer day.”
It hasn’t gotten above 75 degrees one day since I bought them.
Today on public radio I heard about the drought in Texas and the Midwest. Those juice pops gave me a few ideas about how to solve the problem. It’s time to go for the big deluge—no puny two day rainstorm. Think big—forty days and forty nights.
If everyone invited the most obnoxious person they know to spend a long weekend—the kind of person who drives you crazy when you have to spend more than ten minutes in the same room with them—it would rain for three days straight.
Then hold a party for 30 boys between the ages of 7 and 12. There’s another solid afternoon of rain.
Remodel. Take the roof off the house. Paint the outside. Refinish the deck. Any major outside construction project requiring dry sunny days will surely bring wet weather
Has anybody tried holding a car wash to raise money for the high school band? Everybody knows it always rains as soon as you wash your car. If 40 people get their cars washed, that could produce 40 days of rain.
Forget high pressure areas, El Nino and the ozone hole. What do weathermen know? The real reason it’s so dry in certain parts of the country is because people aren’t planning enough picnics.
They need to make it a community project. Hold an outdoor potluck, several backyard weddings and kite-flying contest all on the same day.
That will definitely bring rain.
It hasn’t gotten above 75 degrees one day since I bought them.
Today on public radio I heard about the drought in Texas and the Midwest. Those juice pops gave me a few ideas about how to solve the problem. It’s time to go for the big deluge—no puny two day rainstorm. Think big—forty days and forty nights.
If everyone invited the most obnoxious person they know to spend a long weekend—the kind of person who drives you crazy when you have to spend more than ten minutes in the same room with them—it would rain for three days straight.
Then hold a party for 30 boys between the ages of 7 and 12. There’s another solid afternoon of rain.
Remodel. Take the roof off the house. Paint the outside. Refinish the deck. Any major outside construction project requiring dry sunny days will surely bring wet weather
Has anybody tried holding a car wash to raise money for the high school band? Everybody knows it always rains as soon as you wash your car. If 40 people get their cars washed, that could produce 40 days of rain.
Forget high pressure areas, El Nino and the ozone hole. What do weathermen know? The real reason it’s so dry in certain parts of the country is because people aren’t planning enough picnics.
They need to make it a community project. Hold an outdoor potluck, several backyard weddings and kite-flying contest all on the same day.
That will definitely bring rain.
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