Rainy Days & Wichita Eagle Newspaper

Rant coming... I guess the person that delivers my Wichita Eagle Newspaper disregards ANY memos from the newspaper office. My paper is STILL being tossed on the drive! A couple days ago it was in a plastic bag in the middle of the drive, a knot tied in the end of the bag and the paper was soggy inside. I would have taken pictures but I was busy with the 4th of July.
This is yesterday morning's paper. This time it's not in the middle of the drive, but still wet because it's not in plastic.

This morning it was in the middle of the drive and not it plastic but my husband heard the thunder and went out to retrieve it before it rained. Sidewalk art is fleeting...

I'm glad I got pictures of these before the rain.

A small defense to the paper not being in plastic, even I didn't think it was suppose to rain this week. Here's a picture of the radar yesterday morning...

See that small line of storm clouds? We were in that....

My gardens and yard are loving this, but so is the grass and weeds in my gardens. My little tiller doesn't work well in the mud. I may have to do all the weeding by hand if this keeps up. Mind you, I'm not complaining, anytime I don't have to water I'm a happy camper. :)

See the water sitting in the driveway in the picture above? And this wasn't really a great deal of rain. It doesn't take much to fill my drive.

Warning! Rant Coming...

With more and more newspapers laying off and closing down every day, you'd think that they would be doing everything they could to keep subscribers happy and buying their papers. I just re-subscribed the other day to our nearest big city paper because I like to be able to roll my news up, tuck it under my arm and take it into whatever waiting room or just waiting situation I happen to be going to. I haven't gotten into reading the news online because I come away feeling like I might have missed something, did I hit every page? Now for my rant... many months ago we got a new delivery person. It seems like every time we have a substantial rain, I have a soggy paper. Sunday I went out to get my paper at 9am, I found it laying in the middle of the now dry driveway, where I have asked them NOT to throw it several times over the past few months, in an open plastic bag and soggy to the point of almost being pulp. I papered my living room...
I have called and also used their online system to ask that they NOT throw the paper on the drive. When it rains, my drive fills with water. When they put the newspaper in a knotted plastic bag and throw it on the drive it skids on the sand which tears holes in it just big enough to allow the bag to fill with water. All they need to do is toss it on my lawn beside my drive! I am really getting tired of this. I am not naming the paper now, but I might later.

Rant over, but I'm calling them first thing in the morning.