[Marilyn]

It's just plain hot and dry here. I saw a cloud of dust in a field this morning and thought it was a dust devil until I got closer, and it was a farmer shredding the corn stubble in his field. What a cloud he was stirring up. We're not watering the yard as much as we were since we have water rationing and all, you should see how brown some of the grass is in our back yard. My skin is getting soooo dry. Normally it's humid enough here that I don't have to use lotion except in the winter. That's not the case this year.