The PlanoWeather.com almanac says we have had thirteen days of rain this month, but it sure seems like twenty-two. When it's not raining it is 73% humidity. Walking around the Oak Point lake the combination of mugginess and the smell of wet weeds set off nature anxiety I rarely feel. It's a smell memory from Camp Fire Girl camp as a kid. Warning! Mosquitoes! Warning! Chiggers! Warning! Ticks! Warning! Itching eyeballs.
Plano Parks & Recreation warned on its Facebook page that snakes have been "flooded out" of their normal forest areas, and may be on the trails. I did spot one next to the paved trail near the dam. Pretty sure it was a black water snake. It took off into the lake.
Thank heaven I wasn't served canned whole tomatoes or spinach, like in the camp dining hall. Didn't have to sing, "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt," either.
But if all of the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops, oh what a rain that would be.
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