Hurricane Katrina pounded the south, in particular New Orleans. I was in New Orleans once, in 1979 for a few days. Love the area, was nice place even though I was only 11 years old. I will be giving a few dollars to the Red Cross to help out would encourage everyone to donate some money if you can.

The combined rain totals for Thursday and Friday are two and a half inches of rain. And that to the six inches or so we got the week prior and that's a lot of darned rain. Yet some parts of Kansas and Missouri haven't had much rain. Its Mother Nature at her best.

Took Franklin to the vet's office yesterday and found that he's a healthy boy. He got his first go around of shots, he'll get another set of shots in a month and then will get neutered in late fall.

We've had more rain this past week, but nothing really measurable. Mostly just short bursts of light rain. And it's been raining off and on all morning. The humidity is making it a little tough to get things dry.

Our little kitten we who adopted us last week will be going to the vet's office Saturday for a check up. We have named him Franklin.

Because it had cooled off enough for us to feel up to going out, we decided to do a little shopping after we got groceries. But before we could leave we had to deal with the fact that a black kitten has adopted us. While we were out, we stopped at Petco and purchased a few things before going on with the rest of our day. All this and we still can't seem to find a companion for Sergei.

We got more rain Friday, the total so far is five inches. I need to get some laundry done today, even if it does rain today.

Had a nasty weather related headache develop last night. We went out to pick up a couple things at the grocery store and I felt the pressure begin to build behind my right eye as we left the store. When we got home fifteen minutes later, I thought I was going to vomit, but somehow managed to avoid doing that. Ate a late dinner,look something for the pain before I showered and went to bed.

We got about a quarter inch of rain this morning. Most of the night it looked liked it was going to build to this big storm and nothing really happened. Just a little rain then the storm left.

Had a nasty migraine yesterday. Didn't get as much done as I wanted to because I felt lousy all day.

This morning I woke up to rain, we got three quarters of an inch of rain in the short downpour. Which killed any chance of me doing a load of laundry this morning. It is supposed to be hot today and tomorrow, but will cool off again this weekend. Tomorrow has a chance of rain as well. Ugh, wonder how much rain we will get and how steamy will it get. We need the rain, but we could do without the heat.

From Friday morning until early Sunday morning we got 3.25 inches of rain.

It has been nice the past couple days and its shaping up to be nice today as well. Will have the finally rain gauge total later today. Not sure if it will rain or not today.

Went to a cat show at the KCI Expo Center yesterday. Did some shopping and had lunch out before coming home.

Got some much needed rain this morning and could get some more before the days done. Looks like the weather pattern finally broke into a more pleasant situation.

Had trouble sleeping last night, never got a full nights sleep. My room was a bit warm, even though I had the windows open and had the fans going. Felt like I was broiling.

Was hopeful that it wouldn't continue to be blast furnace hot, but I thought wrong. Another week of higher then normal temperatures and it is just zapping what strength I have. On top of that, some scattered storms are popping up here and there, but nothing in our neck of the woods. It seems the weather has to be one extreme or the other with seldom any patterns of normalcy at all.

This weekend will be a dull one due to the projected temperatures. Not that there is a ton of things we want to do, but we might have felt up to get out of the house for a few hours and do something fun if it weren't for the heat.

Got some much needed rain last night and this morning. But not nearly as much as we need. I am happy it is cooler but it will turn warm again next week. Thought we might get away from the blast furnace for awhile, but guess not.

It was warmer over the weekend then I expected it would be. Yesterday was hotter then predicted and the same will go for today and tomorrow. I am tired of the blast furnace heat. Will be happy when it cools off and we get some much needed rain, which might happen later in the week.

Have managed to get a few things done in this heat. Would like to get more done, but I just feel limp after getting a few chores done.