We got over an inch and a half of rain last week but could always use more...just not this particular weekend.
This weekend is the Fabulous 1890s Weekend in Mansfield. The town and University is celebrating the first night football game ever played. All kinds of activities were planned for yesterday and today so of course it rained.
There was to be a pep rally, bonfire and fireworks as well as a street fair last evening. Today the street fair continues and the University is making its debut in Sprint Football (players must be under 172 pounds) against Cornell. (The school dropped regular football after the 2006 season. Too costly and they were not terribly competitive. That is, they got their butt kicked on a regular basis.)
This evening is a reenactment of the first night game. The story is that they didn't even know it was the first when it occurred. There was a fair and the new fangled electric lights were on display so a bunch of college kids decided to showcase their new sport--football--by playing a game under the lights.
Now there's no doubting that we could use the rain and there were probably folks who have been hoping for rain, but just like any woman, Mother Nature works in some mighty mysterious ways. She has delivered the rain at a most inopportune time. A couple of days earlier or later would have been fine.
UPDATE: The may have lucked out a bit down in the valley. The rain showers stopped up here around noon and the sun even peeked between the clouds for a bit. Still, that's no guarantee that it's not pouring down at the University. When we go 1.6 inches of rain last week, the folks on the other side of Mansfield (just 8 miles away as the crow flies) got nothing at all.
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