Time to break out those Top Ten Ways you can tell it’s been a wet year.  Here they are: 

10. Dumping-out the rain gauge each day provides enough water for the kid’s evening bath. 

  9.  One day your child calls 9-1-1 to report a UFO, but it turn out only to be the sun. 

  8.  Some guy from Chicago stops at your house and asks to launch his fishing boat in your corn field. 

  7.  You have to wait for the alfalfa windrows to float to shore before they can be harvested. 

  6.  Mercury Marine asks to demonstrate their new 90 HP motor, which now comes equipped with a 3-point hitch. 

  5.  Cattails are more of a weed problem than foxtails. 

  4.  A 50 percent chance of rain is reason for optimism. 

  3.  You wonder if there is such a thing as an Indian Sun Dance. 

  2.  “Do you take out these straw walkers for rice?” 

  1.  The seed corn dealer stops by and uses buoys instead of fence posts to sign your fields.