My students led chapel this past Friday morning. We had practiced for a few minutes Monday thru Thursday, and did a walk through Thursday morning. They are quick learners and did very well. We used Psalm 51:10 and the idea of God being steadfast -- dependable, trustworthy, and unmoveable. We were the first class of the year, and I think we set a good example. We had one curve ball; one of my girls caught the chicken pox
from her 3rd grade sister in GB's classroom! The billbergia pyramidalis are in bloom. They don't last long, but are spectacular. We have six influorenscences this year. The close up shows the complexity of the flowerets -- some deep purple at the tips and a gold stamen. The bromeliads are stoloniferous, which means that they will sort of "climb" the laurel oak...up to a point. The net result will be a dense border of plants around the tree trunk. This is from one plant we took with us from Ft. Myers, so this has done well in four years! We had 4.5 inches of rain this past week. Fay left a great amount of water and when the afternoon thunderstorms got going this past week, there 
were tremendous amounts of moisture for the storms to feed on. We had a couple of real cloud bursts -- spectacular, roaring downpours. We got our rain yesterday courtesy of Gustav. Even though we were 450 miles away, Gustav was pulling moisture bands from the Atlantic across Florida all day, to the tune of 1.6 inches of rain! The effect on our community is that the St. Johns River continues to be in flood stage; over 400 homes are under water. Our retention pond behind our house has water in it as high as it was after the three hurricanes in 2004! There were three pairs of mallards feeding in it this morning, and from the sound of things the frogs are really enjoying the 
water also. Tropical Storm Hanna is behaving in a confused manner out in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas. It seems like it will stay at tropical storm or minimal hurricane status. We should know by Friday what is what with Hanna. It looks like another rainy week; we're over 10 inches above our yearly average (45.03 inches of precip to date). The last two years were below average -- that's how averages are made!
were tremendous amounts of moisture for the storms to feed on. We had a couple of real cloud bursts -- spectacular, roaring downpours. We got our rain yesterday courtesy of Gustav. Even though we were 450 miles away, Gustav was pulling moisture bands from the Atlantic across Florida all day, to the tune of 1.6 inches of rain! The effect on our community is that the St. Johns River continues to be in flood stage; over 400 homes are under water. Our retention pond behind our house has water in it as high as it was after the three hurricanes in 2004! There were three pairs of mallards feeding in it this morning, and from the sound of things the frogs are really enjoying the 
water also. Tropical Storm Hanna is behaving in a confused manner out in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas. It seems like it will stay at tropical storm or minimal hurricane status. We should know by Friday what is what with Hanna. It looks like another rainy week; we're over 10 inches above our yearly average (45.03 inches of precip to date). The last two years were below average -- that's how averages are made!
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Looks like your garden is doing well with all that rain! It's weird to see the retaining pond with water in it, though. I'm used to it being dry!
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