At our My-Lynx Associates headquarters in Central Texas, we have borne the brunt of a couple of years of drought and heat. The ground has cracked, the plants have wilted. We don't know if it is true or not, but there are companies advertising that the ground is so dry, that it is shifting house foundations off of the level, causing cracks in concrete, window sills to stick, and pushing doors off-kilter. It sounds logical, that there might be some uneven subsidence of the soil causing a tilt. We know that when we spent time on the West Coast years ago, you could even have little earth tremors locally because of the oil drilling. When the oil was withdrawn over the years from the underground reservoirs, there would be sudden and sometimes shocking bumps in the night when the ground shifted. But when we turned on the radio - nothing to report. It would be something that just happened over a small area, a kind of shift sideways or downwards as the earth rearranged itself.

So even thought they like to tell tall tales in Texas, this sounds like it could be "on the level" as the advertisers like to say.

The weather the last couple of weeks has been a complete shift in climate. It has been the bone-dry, with 68 days of heat over 100 degrees, one day short of an historical record over 70 years ago. And now, we have had days when the flash-flood warnings are coming over the radio in droves and the streams have filled up for the first time in months. It is still a drought, but paradoxically a very damp and rainy drought, until the aquifers and lakes begin to fill up again.

We have been indoors with our books, and sales have been good on-line. So click our links and see what is for sale. We have a thousand items, most of them categorized by topic, but don't forget to click the "other" category where we still have some work to do to make the aisles in our on-line store nice and neat.