When I first spent time in a very rural community, the tiny town of Bishop, Texas, where my partner and I set-up an Internet relay station in the closet of a local bakery (that is another story), I chuckled at the ‘locals’ obsession with rain. All conversation began and ended with speculation on the likelihood of rain, the effects of recent rain, and opinions on whether or not more rain would help or hinder the local cotton or sorghum crop. Bishop was surrounded by thousands of acres of each, and the obsession extended beyond the farmers – Mr & Mrs Kaizer, our landlords and owners of Bishop Bakery were no less attentive to the weather. I didn’t connect “rain” to the prosperity of their bakery at the time, but given a little thought, it is obvious now - -
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When I first spent time in a very rural community, the tiny town of Bishop, Texas, where my partner and I set-up an Internet relay station in the closet of a local bakery (that is another story), I chuckled at the ‘locals’ obsession with rain. All conversation began and ended with speculation on the likelihood of rain, the effects of recent rain, and opinions on whether or not more rain would help or hinder the local cotton or sorghum crop. Bishop was surrounded by thousands of acres of each, and the obsession extended beyond the farmers – Mr & Mrs Kaizer, our landlords and owners of Bishop Bakery were no less attentive to the weather. I didn’t connect “rain” to the prosperity of their bakery at the time, but given a little thought, it is obvious now - -