Any rain ideas?

Dear Editor,

Did the government, without telling us, move the axis of the earth? Are we now where the Sierra Desert used to be? Ain't funny! Put us back where we used to get rain now and then. Now, I am glad for the mild winters. Not much fun trying to sell snow cones daily when it is 30 degrees below zero, but better to have cold and then some rain in the summer.

Last year was a bad year. My rain barrels saved me with 3,000 gallons of water. This year, with daily heat over 100 degrees and the sky only giving me 600 gallons of water, my gardens died.

The two backup river gardens died when the river ran dry. Plants don't live long in sand without water. I was forced to water daily just to keep alive plants in my yard, forget about production.

I know it is bad when in the first time in my 28 years of gardening, my catnip ( the only plant that has never failed to produce and bugs leave it alone) was, in less than a day, eaten to the stem by grasshoppers.

This summer, with massive costs of living in this town, I have had 13 families stop at my store to say they were leaving. I can only see one good thing and one only, I have yet to be bitten by a mosquito.

I ain't a Bible thumper but even I have been on my knees asking for RAIN! I am even trying some old wives' tale ideas to bring rain. Do you know any?

Bill Donze

McCook