We got a little band from Tropical Storm Erin this morning, and the rain barrel completely filled up within an hour. Now I have water for all my plants for the rest of the summer! We'll have to buy mosquito dunks to drop in the water so we don't get West Nile or dengue fever or what have you. Those tiger mosquitoes are real vicious bastards, and I believe they came all the way from Japan* just to bite the strip of skin between my shirt hem and my waistband.
*Several sites say they came in to Houston in a shipment of tires from Japan. I said Indonesia before, but I made that up.**
**Why, damn it? Why did I do that? Now I have no credibility! Believe not a word I say! I don't even have a stupid rain barrel! I just wanted you guys to think I was cool! Sob!***
***Sob!****
****Sniff.