It rained last night, but didn't thunder. Shucks. Why have rain if you're not going to hear thunder. It's been so wet the last couple of days, it will probably never dry out now.

I am so tired. Got to bed about 10:30, got up at 6:30. That's 8 hours, so maybe I just need some caffeine (caffiene? cafiend? I'm getting goofy.). Mmmmmmcappacinnoperhaps.

This is from Courtney's blogger. I found it quite amusing.

kids and lemonade stands... and cartoons 06:01pm - monday, 2nd june
hehehhe... well Kali and I were out for a walk and we saw a bunch of kids with a drink stand on a street corner. They were enthusiastically jumping up and down and yelling for cars to stop... and we got solicited for tea and lemonade a few times too.

I didn't have my wallet on me though, so we walked on by. But I decided to go back with some change later and get a cup. hehe. But I have seen too many cartoons about kids and lemonade stands... but I decided to give them the benefit of the doubt and get some. I figured anything I didn't know about, I could handle. Support free enterprise and all that and help the kids make a little money and keep from being too disappointed by lack of customers. So I get there and plunk down my 50 cents for a full glass (geez, inflation must be going up... I thought it was 25 cents a glass now... and when I was young it was like 10 cents, and when my parents were young it was like 5 cents a glass, and when my grandparents were young it was like a penny a glass. So when my kids are old enough to do something like that it'll probably be $1 a glass... and when their kids are old enough to run a stand, lemons will probably be rare enough and the dollar worthless enough so that it's $10 a glass.) Anyways, I looked over their operation and watched the kid pouring my glass and got a sinking feeling... it was indeed as bad as the cartoons say. It was more than enough to make a Health Inspector speechless. They seemed to be using mismatched, dirty, plastic cups (not the throwaway kind though), and the pitcher of lemonade looked rather dirty like it was their playhouse pitcher and cups. And their were grass clipping stuff and specks floating in the 'lemonade' as he poured it. The lemonade seemed to be some sort of fake lemonade mix drink with lots of artificial coloring that made it look quite orange in color. I hastily told him that half a glass was enough. I chatted with him about how it was going and all that and asked if I had to give the cup back, and he said that his mom was going to get them some throwaway plastic cups when she came back from work and that I did have to give the cup back. He said they'd only had one other customer (I think it was their half-full glass sitting on the table with the remaining two empty glasses). I took two small sips from a part of the cup that was a little cleaner and gave the cup back to him and said that was all I wanted. It tasted pretty watery. Then I walked back. I was afraid to turn around cuz I thought I might see the kid pouring the rest of my glass back into the pitcher. I spit several times on the way back, and felt like I had grass clipping between my teeth, and vowed to check out lemonade stands more carefully next time.

So the moral of the story is that the cartoons are right about lemonade stands... and you shouldn't buy microwave bagged popcorn either cuz you can make it yourself.

I think I'm going to go back to bed.