My areas’ weather has been unsettled since yesterday morning. Very heavy rain, some significant wind gusts, and almost constant lightning in storms. Some locations have recorded over 200mm (about 10″) of rain since yesterday morning. So much rain that farmers cannot get into their fields. More unsettled weather may be, likely is, on the way later this evening.
I saw this towering cloud this morning.
As my blog title states I used to live in Texas. Like most, if not all, folks who grew up in, or lived for a substantial part of their life in any part of the world, there were traditions.
One of those traditions was eating ham and black-eyed peas on New Year Day, because it was a kind of tradition in the southern US that this meal was thought to bring good luck in the new year.
Carrying on a tradition can provide familiarity and a sense of ease in unsettled, unsettling, times. So we had ham and black-eyed peas for dinner yesterday. Behold.
And it was good. Although the presentation was different from my childhood plate, the gist – ham and black-eyed peas – was there.
We will see what 2022 brings. I hope it brings you good fortune.
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