Well, we finally got the rain they’d been promising yesterday afternoon. After getting up to 93 degrees or so, a line of pretty impressive thunderstorms came through yesterday afternoon. Since God hasn’t lifted his veil of protection from us (unlike the Midwest, South, and Southwest), we didn’t have any tornadoes or anything like that. Just some power outages here and there. Now it’s quite a bit cooler out.

Sad news that Doc Watson passed away. Aside from his phenomenal guitar playing, he was a veritable encyclopedia of Traditional American Music. And he was a pretty darn good carpenter, from what I’ve read. This is pretty amazing, considering he was blind since he about a year old (though if you saw some of my carpentry work, you’d probably guess that I was blind, too). We’ll miss you, Doc. Say hello to Merle.