Are you carting the dirt to the same undisclosed location as the recent tumbleweed surplus?

I'm glad you were able to extract enough of yourself to type this post. 11 wheelbarrows is a LOT of dirt! Be careful out there...those are some impressive (if colorless) clouds!!

I remember when I was a kid, we lived next to a cotton field and the dust storms blowing in like that. I was an awesome and disconcerting site all at the same time.

Eric,
I remember our backyard filling with tumbleweeds to the top of our 8' fence. At the time we lived one block south of (then unpaved) Golf Course Rd. Apparently the problems have just moved north. But seriously how do you like your new digs.

Jim, I defiantly deposited the dirt down the alley a half block or so to the west, into the vacant lot from which some of it surely originated. I realize that I'm doomed to play the part of a West Texas Sisyphus, as at least some of that sand will surely appear in a repeat performance, and I will just as surely truck it back down the alley.

Gwynne, things are much scarier in grayscale, aren't they?

Bleu, when we came to Midland in '82 the land where Target and Home Depot and Sonic sit was a cultivated field, less than a half mile from our house. I remember getting sandstorms from that, but nothing like we're seeing this spring.

Gregg, our tumbleweeds only reached the 6' mark, so I guess that's an improvement. But, to answer your question, we still love the neighborhood and the new house. We haven't second-guessed our decision to move out here in the least.

I see you took the Book of the Dead out of the tomb again....haven't we had a chat about that?

So this is why all the brick homes in Midland look so fresh---they are routinely sand-blasted!

Don't folks pay good money for top soil? And yours has already been sifted.

I see you took the Book of the Dead out of the tomb again....haven't we had a chat about that?

My bad. I keep getting it confused with that other book...you know, the Internal Revenue Code?

they are routinely sand-blasted!

The brick can take it. It's the auto body paint that really suffers.

And I can't think of anything that will thrive in this sand except for gourds, which make for an interesting ground cover but are hell on the lawn mowing!

I'm glad to see you posting again. I was beginning to worry.

My only experience with dust storms was traveling I-10 through New Mexico and Texas last year. It was nothing like that picture, but scary enough.

I think I'll stick with the Red River rising. I live on a hill :-)

Thanks for the concern, Donna. This has been a crazy few months.

But we don't speak of floods around here. I'll be posting on that topic pretty soon. ;-)

It's been kind of a weird year, weather wise. Hasn't it? Even for Texas.

Foo, I think you're right. It's been a few years since we've seen this kind of weather pattern persist. I'm tired of it.