Why is it always raining cats and dogs? Can’t it rain aunts and uncles every now and then? Why not fish and chips, or bacon and eggs? How did the saying ever come about, anyways? My cats and dog want nothing to do with the rain. Some day I’ll research it and find out, but not today.

The first reported sighting of the May 11, 1970 tornado came from an off-duty policeman, who spotted a funnel cloud at 8:10 pm three miles east of the Lubbock city limits. What the cop actually saw turned out to be the baby brother of the main or primary tornado that would wreak such havoc on the West Texas community of 140,000 – the biggest town between Fort Worth and El Paso at that time.

“He’s a pinball wizard, There has got to be a twist. A pinball wizard’s Got such a supple wrist.” — Song lyrics ‘The Pinball Wizard” by The Who ------ Remember video games? Yeah, I know they’re still around.

As I pulled into the convenience store parking lot, I couldn’t help but notice a man with gray hair sitting in his wheelchair. I parked my car, ready to find someone who could benefit from a little company.

“ Hippo” Vaughn cursed his rotten luck on May 2, 1917, after losing the only double no-hitter in major league history. James Leslie Vaughn grew up in Weatherford, the Texas town west of Fort Worth where he was born in 1888.

There’s nothing like a big nasty storm barreling through the area, knocking down power lines and internet reception, to get a family to put down there cellphones, step away from their online games, and sit down and talk about this, that and something other. SHE: The pea and mint soup we had last night really gave my mouth a refreshing ‘zing,’ but I wouldn’t have thought it would be so red.

“If you don’t like the weather, just wait a few minutes. It will change.” — Attributed to both Will Rogers and Mark Twain, depending on what you read.

When I was young, I never gave a single thought about being a Redwood Tree or Giant Sequoia. I was happy being a run-of-the-mill shrub.

Martin Dies, fire- breathing founder of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), came out of retirement on Apr. 26, 1952 to run for Texas’ new at-large congressional seat.

I’m trying hard to remember. What was so dad-gum funny about that?”— Me.