Something Besides Knitting

Last evening we were watching a movie, when this started. We had sheets of rain and the rain gauge measured about 2 3/4" after it was all over. This rain was a good thing as the lawn needed the water, and I am sure the corn down the street needed it too. It was a great relief to this dessert raised person too. Yesterday's weather forecast had included the terms "heat index" and "dew point" within about fifteen or twenty degrees of each other. "Dew point" was not something I had ever heard growing up in Southeast Idaho and Utah; I had heard "heat index," but not very often. I hear them both here in Minnesota, there is always something to learn when you move to a new place. It has been nice enough to day that we have had the windows open all day and the air conditioning off.

Last night one of the plants in the porch pond had one bloom on it like this.



This morning it looked like this.

And this. I have had this type of plant in the pond every year, but they haven't bloomed this early in the summer before, and they have never had this many blooms at once. They always make more plants as the summer goes by, but don't survive in the house over winter very well. I have been giving them to the Biology teacher at the high school for their greenhouse and it turns out that turtles absolutely love them and the other plants I give them!