On this next to last Wednesday of the 2024 October, it was to Lucy Park I ventured to try and enjoy the return to summer-like temperatures, with the current heat wave on Day Three.
As you can see, conditions are looking a bit dry on the ground in the Lucy Park Backwoods Jungle.
The current drought conditions have turned so dire that Wichita Falls is once again in water restriction mode.
Driving by the MSU (Midwestern State University) campus, heading north on Taft Boulevard, en route to Lucy Park, I was not too shocked, because I am used to it now, what with it happening every year, the week before Halloween, that being the beginning of the installation of the MSU Burns Fantasy of Lights Happy Holidays Christmas Installation.
Marking, for me, the start of the dreaded, by me, holiday season. A season which every year has me opining it would seem to be much better if this happened, like the Olympics, every four years, not every year.
Christmas products have already been installed on Walmart shelves, I saw yesterday.
I do not know why being what is known as a bit of a Scrooge comes so naturally to me, but it does...
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