Thank you Al!!

Global warming must be in full effect here at Rusty. Today we had torrential rains, hail, and unseasonably cool weather. Kate would have worn a jacket if she were here. Those who have been here enough to know, and there are quite a few of them, say it was out of the ordinary. The main downside of the rain (there I go being whiny again!) is the mud. The country of Iraq is covered in a 2" layer of the finest dust you've ever seen. It is almost like someone spilled a bigger than Price Club size bottle of gray baby powder and never bothered to clean it up. When it is dry, the dust gets everywhere. I think it is why computers and trucks don't last more than a couple of years here. When you walk down the side of the road, your foot sinks about half an inch and a little poof of dust puffs up. If a Humvee drives past you, port side to, it's exhaust pipe creates a cloud of fine dust that is so fine that you don't even notice if you breathe it in. That's dry. When this stuff is wet, I've heard it described as baby poop mud. I'd take my baby to the doctor if her poop looked like that, but the name does get across the point that it's slippery, slimy, and sticks to everything. But mud aside, if the weather stays like this all year, I'm just fine with that!