Today is the running of the 91st Indianapolis 500. Maw grew up in Indy. During the entire month of May, everything is checkerboard black/white. Everything centers around the Indy 500. All the news is about the 500. All advertisements include something about the 500.
One of the coolest things this year is that there are 3 women racing. Also, Dr. McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) from Grey's Anatomy is driving the Pace Car!!! He is a co-owner of Vision Racing which has 4 cars running in today's race. It's a huge honor to be the Pace Car driver!!
In other news, it's been raining a lot here and we are very grateful. Our main reservoir that supplies water for our county is finally full, but the backup lake is still 10 feet low because it is east of here and hasn't been getting as much rainfall over it's watershed area. We know many other parts of the country desperately need rain and we hope you start getting some very soon. We know very well what it's like to live in an extreme drought.
Have a great day!
Luf, Us
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Have A Great Weekend :)
I am glad to hear that you have some reain!! I am going to weatch the race today!
Great about the rain. It is so dry all ofur. There is even a forest fire here in the mountains, already. We nefur see the smokey skies until July/August! Momma is already worriet.
Patches
Mom says in all the time she lived there, Maw, she never ever saw the Indy 500. But she remembers that everyone starts driving like they're IN the Indy 500 around that time.
We hope your backup lake gets filled up, as well as the main reservoir ...
We started to get a little rain. Not enough, but every bit helps! I hope you are having a happy weekend.
I'm glad it's rainin' there! We need some rain, too -- Momma's flowers are gonna be kinda puny!
Kittyhugs and purrs from MaoMao!
Yay rain. We hopes dat all da beans in places dat needs it get some. Zippy finally got to tell about crashing into da garage, she acts like she's all proud of it or sumfing...
Oh we're having rain. Since yesterday. And it will continue through tomorrow. Personally, I don't care but the woman gets very down if she gets too deprived of sunshine.
You are right about the renovations. Those two painted the lounge (this, after that big dining room project!) and today we got a new floor. This will be the last of the work, though... for awhile.
Glad yoo got yer rain at last. It started raining here again at midday, and now we haf strong winds and it is COLD. We got outdoors this morning, but spent the rest of the day napping. Mum had to put our lounger away again.
i hope you have fun watching the races!
obi, i'm tagging your for the true confessions meme.
love
--suz
So what did your mommy think about Franchitti winning the race?
We are so glad you are getting some rain! We love to watch the races too! Sending a Happy Memorial Day purr for everyone!
Ya'll can send the rain to us - Mom said we are getting close to being a foot behind in rainfall.
Ernest and I hope you get more rain for the backup lake. The forty paws need a lot of water!
I didn't know Maw was from Indy! Cool beans!
And rain is good! Rain is great!
We had the tenth driest May on record, until last Thursday & Friday.
We got over 3" of rain in 36 hours! Yippeeeee!
The past two summers here were drought-like, and killed my big beautiful elm tree, so I for one say YAY to rain!
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