150. Nasruddin on the Run
Nasruddin was making a journey through the mountains when he was attacked by a band of robbers. Thanks to some good luck he was able to escape, but he knew the robbers were not far behind him.
As he ran, he saw a wandering holy man beside the road. “Hide yourself!” Nasruddin shouted at the dervish. “Robbers are coming! They’ll kill you for sure!”
“I serve God,” replied the dervish, “and I know he will protect me.”
“Well, that’s good,” said Nasruddin as he disappeared down the road. “But just in case, you might want to find a hiding place!”
This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-202The2 Laura Gibbs
Total rain so far this month at the reporting station has been 3.82″ which mostly came in two storms and I think we got more than that. On Tuesday we got the second storm which was not quite as much as the first one but it was a real thunderstorm that hit at 14:00 (right on the forecaster’s schedule). Very heavy wind, rain and lots of lightning which knocked out power. Also got some hail that was about marble size but fortunately not much of it. The power was off again yesterday during the hottest part of the day for a couple of hours which had me firing up Desperado’s generator to give me some A/C. I think they were doing some permanent fixes to what ever knocked out the power on Tuesday.
No rain, or very little, the past couple of days which has let my usual walking routes dry out. Not completely dry but enough that I could avoid the worst places.