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As some of you may know, I live in the mountains of West Virginia, just west of Winchester, Virginia.

Tonight I'm in Richmond, VA. I had some time to waste on my way down here this evening. I detoured through the formerly rural area of Northern Virginia where I lived for about 30 years before migrating west.

As I drove past our old homestead, I thought it was curious that my former next door neighbor had drained his pond. As I went a little further up the road, my other former neighbor's pond was drained. In my feeble mind I was thinking they'd sold out to developers who would turn more good farmland into townhouses.

I guess I'm really slow. It took the third empty pond for it to hit me about the drought they keep talking about in the news. Yet, living just an hour away, it didn't really register in my mind.

As I took the back roads to Richmond, I was shocked at how many ponds were either empty, or extremely low.

Living just a few miles west of this area, with a full pond of water, I feel extremely grateful.

I feel kind of foolish too.

Can we even begin to imagine the horror our friends in Southern California, like JHAP, are reporting?

Just a thought.

Ken

Cat,

We need to count our blessings. I thank the Lord at the dinner talble every day as I know everything comes through him.

For some reason my part of the country and state has had droughts but nothing like other parts of the country. Just a couple hundred miles south of me it's a whole different story.

I do believe our world climate is changing. For how long and how much is a natural cycle and how much is man made I don't know. But there are some changes taking place.