The septic tank was pumped out yesterday afternoon, about an hour after the guy left I was going to go out and get groceries but the car wouldn't start. Mom and I ended up hiking up to the little shopping area where our bank is located and buying a few things at the discount store before hiking home. It probably will not be until Monday morning before we can get a tow to the service station. Its probably something like the starter or maybe the ignition switch, but that's a guess.

Since I wont be able to get out and get some things to finish one project or another, will have to do other things to keep myself busy. That wont be a problem, have a few things I have been putting off. Of course it doesn't help that I have a headache.

We got a little rain last night, like we needed anymore. And to make matters worse, the septic tank needs to be taken care of. Ugh, that's not a pretty deal either.

Have been working on a new schedule so I can be more productive around the house. Maybe it will help me work on doing better with my online sales.

Anne Bancroft and Dana Elcar have both passed. I liked both actors.

Cool day today. Might get some rain yet.

We got hit with a nice rainstorm last night. Some time before it hit, could feel the humidity rise late in the afternoon. Then the rain came and within minutes you could feel that the temperature had dropped a bit. We got about an one and a quarter inch of rain after the storm left. Wind wasn't too bad, but it did blow some rain in. Of course now it will be a day or two before I can do another load of laundry or mow. Guess I shouldn't complain.

I managed to get a load of laundry done yesterday without disaster happening. Will do another load this morning and hope I can get another one or two done later in the week. Would like to try and get two loads done in one day, but that may be asking for trouble.

Even though it was fairly warm yesterday, because the house had cooled off during the night it wasn't too bad. The temperatures the rest of the week are going to be in the upper eighties or lower nineties. I have some cool meals planned for the rest of the week, so it shouldn't be too bad.

I need to do some laundry, I'm starting to get backed up on loads. I could wait another day or two, but with rain forecast for later in the week, maybe pushing ahead and at least getting a couple small loads would be good. Although I have a feeling it might back up into the basement and that's not good. I would go to a Laundromat, but I don't going to Laundromats in the first place and secondly, the only one close by closed up shop sometime last year. Well, I guess I'll have to decide one way or the other and roll with it.

There was one and a quarter inches of rain in the gauge from last nights rain. I figure, and this is only a guess, that we got close to five inches of rain last week. That's a lot of rain and just watch us go into a bit of a dry spell.

Yesterday morning there was nearly two inches of water in the rain gauge. Thought maybe we would escape the day without rain and I was wrong. We had a tornado warning for a bit, late in the evening and then got some more rain.

Managed to get much of the water from previous rains, out of the basement. I am sure there is more rain downstairs.

Looks like more rain is in store for the area. Saw on the news where the amount of rain varies from area to area. One town had over two inches of rain, while another had just a scant amount.

Finally put the rain gauge out. Haven't checked it to see how much rain we got, I know it rained hard a couple times last night and early this morning. Seems like Mother Nature has in a rain pattern at the moment. I'm sure we will have another dry spell like we had before all this rain came pouring in.

Have a headache because of the weather. Was able to get a load of laundry done before it started to rain today. I think we might have gotten around an inch of rain earlier in the week. Seemed like we got more then that, haven't put out a new rain gauge yet so I am just guessing. Today's rain has been a gentle rain so far.

Bought the Mystery Science Theater set volume 3 this morning. Will probably get it next week. Now I only need to purchase the first two sets and I will have all the sets out there. Will more then likely buy any set that comes out in the future. Would love to have every misted movie on DVD, but I'm not buying someone's homemade version. I want a legitimate copy.

Went to see the movie "Madagascar" last night, pretty funny movie. The only problem I had was that the lead characters looked like the animators had gone with the decision not to make the leads look as realistic as the other animals in the movie. For example, the bottom of the paws on the lion "Alex" were flat. His toes were also sort of squared off. The noses on the four main characters looked like layers of felt rather then a more natural look to them. Don't know why they choose to make the main characters look more like toys then the other animals but they did. Other then that, the movie was pretty good. I liked the penguins the most. The only thing that would have made the movie a little better would have been if there had been a bear of some kind some where.

While we were in the movie, we got some rain. The area around where the movie theater is, got a small amount of rain while we where enjoying the movie, near home we got a heavy amount of rain and some wind. It was bad enough that the wind blew wind in and got my bed wet, my bed is near a southern exposure window. Had to sleep on towels last night, and I have a headache. Don't think its related to the sleeping on a wet bed.....but who knows (I kid). Once we got home, there was another burst of heavy rain. It rained a time or two over night was was raining lightly when I went out to feed the dogs. Not sure how much rain we got, and while we did really need this. Mother Nature really didn't need to try and get us caught up all at once either. I would hedge a guess that we got close to three inches. Need to get water out of the basement and put up the new rain gauge this morning.

Really didn't do much this past three days. It didn't help that Mom was a sleepyhead much of the weekend. We got a couple things done around the house and that was it.

Bought a new monitor couple nights ago, a nice LCD flat screen. First LCD monitor I have ever used. Pretty much had to buy a new monitor, was sitting at the computer playing a game and noticed the screen was beginning to puck, it was followed by smoke coming out the vents. Promptly turned the monitor off, got up, opened the front door and then turned on a fan. The smell of smoke wasn't too bad, but wanted to clear it out none the less.

Have been enjoying the cool days, all the while knowing that the summer heat will be here soon and I will be looking forward to fall.

Went to Topeka, didn't stay as long as planned. Both of us were getting sleepy. So we headed home a little early and when we got near home we headed for a Mexican restaurant and had an early dinner. On the way home from dinner we both remarked on how much cooler, even if it wasn't a huge temperature difference, it was around home then it had been in Topeka.

Got a few things planned for today. Will probably take it easy this afternoon.

Thought for sure we were going to get some rain last night. But again nothing. I guess Mother Nature likes teasing us.

Had hoped it was going to rain yesterday, but no go. South of us got some heavy rain and storms. We got teased with the storm clouds, but got zip. Next couple days are going to be warm.

Need to catch up on some things that I have taped. Also need to do some catch up on some chores.

Will be going to Topeka,maybe, this weekend. Mom is into genealogy and there is a research library that has old newspapers on microfilm in Topeka. We have been to it many times and I don't like going. If the place was a lot closer I would let her go on her own, but since the library is close to sixty miles away, I will be going with her. Not that I like borrowing trouble, but I don't want her to be alone is something happens. Still haven't signed up for an auto club yet, need to start a fire under her to get that done.

Woke up with a headache. Will have to work through the pain as best I can, need to get some mowing done. Have a few other things to do as well, may end up pushing some of the things into the coming week.

Got some cleaning done in the basement yesterday. Also did a couple errands.

Went to a Pet Expo at the American Royal today. Had fun, saw sheep, horses, a llama, lots of dogs a few cats, birds and some fish. I would have expected more things to view and buy considering it cost seven dollars to get in. Still had a good time anyway.

Got a lot of rain over night and this morning. Past three days it has rained a bit, I guess Mother Nature is trying to get us caught up in rain. We got enough rain that some got into the basement. Will do some clean up tomorrow.

Had purchased three Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies, in addition to set 7 that I recently got, from Amazon.com and will be returning one because of it being damage. Trying to get the disk out of my DVD player, I inadvertently broken the front edge of the drawer off. Nothing a little luck and super glue cant fix. On the up side, Amazon has already shipped a replacement copy of the movie and all I have to do is ship the damaged one back. The wild world of batwoman may not be worth all of this work, but I want the movie dang it.

Tuesday was rather warm and yesterday was supposed to be warm as well. It started out looking as though it was going to be even though we had some cloud cover. But in the afternoon we got a thunderstorm, which had been brewing all morning and was now ready to serve. Not sure what the total rain count for the afternoon was but I would say about half and inch at least. Today is supposed to stormy as well, which was forecast.

We got some rain yesterday afternoon and overnight. It was kinda of funny...early morning the wind blow hard and it rained, was like that for a few minutes and then it died down. Nice ten minute severe storm. The rain didn't amount to much.

Precious Doe has been identified. Her step-father killed her. It's sad she died, but I am happy they found the scum parents. Another chapter of the story can open now that the previous one has closed.