Rain Again

New Submarine Launched

Every 10 days or so it has rained. Yesterday, some poor GI made a turn onto what looked like a puddled-up access road. It was the drainage ditch behind my trailer. The rain quit after 24 hours and left us to dry out. That process will last about a week, mud is everywhere again. They issued me two sets of boots, I figure there is one for the muddy days and one for the dry days. We have puddles covering all our parking lots big enough to be stopover points for migratory waterfowl. The clouds do have a silver lining, the rain keeps the dust down. Without it, the fine silty soil blows everywhere. The weather has been very pleasant, winters here are not bad. I've adjusted pretty well to the dry air and actually breathing better here than home (probably because there are no cats here). Found an interesting web site that is written by someone living in Baghdad and it gives an interesting Iraqi perspective on this war that won't be on the news back home anytime soon. http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/