I really miss...

Thunderstorms!!! I moved from the "Rain forest" (Illinois) to the desert. It is SO dang dry here. It's crazy how different Utah is from Illinois. In Illinois everything is so green and lush. The trees are full of huge, supple leaves, there are beautiful flowers everywhere, and the grass is so alive and fluffy you could curl up on it and take a nap! Here in Utah I don't think there is even such a word as green. Here, if I don't constantly run my sprinklers my grass will look like straw and my flowers wither up and die in just one day! It NEVER rains here. In Illinois you get more rainy days than you get sunny days. I was actually sick of rain before we came to Utah. Now I miss it. I definitely don't miss the humidity in Illinois tho. Now that was awful! As soon as you walk outside and don't have the air conditioner to protect you anymore, instant sweat! Sweat dripping down your forehead and rolling down your back. It makes you feel like you need 3 showers a day! No, definitely don't miss that. I'll take dried up Utah over that any day! Plus, at least here we've got the mountains to look at. All Illinois has is corn fields.

The weather man says we're supposed to get some rain today. It sure looks gloomy enough outside for rain, but I'm not counting on it. It makes me miss those big Illinois thunderstorms. The ones where your walls shake from the loud claps of thunder, and you think you need a boat to keep from being washed away. If we ever had a storm like that around here people would probably think the world was coming to an end. Bunch of babies.

Anyway... I've got things to clean, kids to feed, and laundry to fold. Plus, I better go outside and water my flowers before they die.