Exceptional

It's not something we had been wanting -- the drought in Morgan County is now listed as "exceptional" which is a rating worse than "extreme." We actually had three rain showers today -- each one lasted only a few minutes and did nothing to alleviate the dry conditions.

On this evening's news program a reporter interviewed the owner of Anderson Orchard. The orchard is in Morgan County and not far away. Paul Anderson said they hadn't had any rain for nine weeks and we can attest to that. Nine weeks would take us back to late May. I can remember a heavy rain on May 1 and maybe we did have some showers the next two weeks, but that would be the last and explains why we have "exceptional drought" conditions.

Finished another batch of tomato sauce this afternoon and made some zucchini bread from an old recipe that I have never used before. The name of the recipe is Zucchini-Date Pudding. I don't understand the pudding concept. The bread is dense and didn't rise much but tastes delicious. I'm just now realizing that the recipe didn't call for eggs and that may be the reason it didn't rise. I think I'll try to make the recipe again and add eggs as some other recipes do.

Tomorrow noon I'm heading off to Camp Lakeview (south of Columbus, IN) for a meeting of the newly elected and appointed officers of the Indiana District LWML. I'm halfway through my term as Roster Coordinator. At one time this was an important position, but in this era of technology what I do doesn't seem to have much value. I've mentioned this to several people. I guess I'm talking myself out of a job. Perhaps I'll learn more tomorrow afternoon.