The air conditioning is on. Much better.

Weather this year has been just crazy. Saint Louis has averages 37 inches of rain each year according to the Source of All Knowledge. So far this year they’ve had thirty. And we’re only fifty miles northeast of there. So you see. Temperatures have actually been cooler than average as of late, but the humidity is just unbearable.

And it never stops raining. Never. Literally.

Friday night Emily and I found our way to Lincoln Park in north Springfield to play Disc Golf for the first time. That adventure would have to wait two days, because the sprinkles started as we entered town from the south, the drizzle started as we drove into the park, the downpour started as we huddled in the shelter waiting for the rain to abate, and the tornado sirens went off about ten minutes later. After five minutes of hiding in the stone-built bathrooms, we split.

Then the hail came.

The Cardinals played the Pirates on Saturday night in a game that saw no break in the rain, drops pouring down for all nine innings as the announcers wondered why they were bothering to continue the contest. Duh, thought I, because it’s never going to stop raining! And I don’t think it has.