My brother called a half hour or so ago and said three of the four roads he had to travel this morning were flooded.

Parts of South Park where he keeps his horses had the County POlice stable flooded out and had all their horses wandering parts of the park. His horses were OK. I've read the news stories and the usual places that flood really did flood and cause grief all morning.

Lots and Lots and Lots of Lots of rain.

We got hammered here today, too.

Downtown flooded really well, and cars were floating their way down the intersection of the two main highways where it gets really deep.

Never mind the repeated "Don't try and drive through water" warnings...

We had two more lines of heavy storms move through since I wrote that post at 3:50PM. And the last line of storms isn't done moving through the area.

Too much water.

Too much water.

We'll take it here.

Following that heat wave marked by a lower, not higher barometer, we have a period of "monsoon air".

Usually that is thick, yucky air but this time it is a fresher monsoonal atmosphere.

Thunderstorms are predicted inland but it leaked around here a bit too. As I was driving I was smelling the warm evaporating shower off the pavement and the smells of different plants, especially eucalyptus. So many different odors that I was really at a loss to explain them thinking my car might be burning, when the epiphany happened. I was traveling over lightly rained on areas.

I mourn the end of my Babcock Peaches and thanked the tree for a great harvest this year.

Apparently birds have been pretty good and holding off to the last day to grab a boysenberry or blackberry because they do disappear hours before my planned harvest. So having draped the area with bird netting, it looks like I get me some berries I get to ripen as long as I chose.

It is hardly half past July and my Loquats, Cherries, Apricots

moi621 (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2013 9:53 pm yellow and white Babcock peaches are

finished. Only a few berries hang on delivering. Fuji Apples some months off and the Mission Figs probably a few weeks off. I need to find a later fruiting Peach I think, or maybe a plum.

I love grazing in the yard.

Oh and I got my arugula working. And potent too. A patch about 2' X 3' .

The seeded plants just instantly produced flowers and seeds so I let them go and now I have a field of leaves. I wish I was as successful with cilantro. Plan to try some mint because the Catnip/catmint grows like a weed.

So how's your weather and the nature around you?

Moi

Mid Coastal O.C. Weather Watcher

We have a thundershower right over our head about 8AM then 15 minutes later it was gone and it was a beautiful day.

(except for the state bird of Minnesota that has been out for a week now).

River

I like to count the seconds between flash and clap.

The time it got to under five seconds, then hardly a second was a memorable experience.

The thunder clap was a jumper.

Yes, I know the State Bird of Minnesota and like my 99 and 44/100ths% DEET.

I dislike them so I keep a bug lamp in my home. Zap, it does !

Change happens.

Soon you will be on your island, sort of like Napoleon - two times.

The night is a bit stuffy. The fresh is out of the air.

Moi

Central Coast O.C.

105,100, 107.....it's just before 6 am and already 85. The cheery weatherperson says that we haven't seen the "low" temperature for the day......Using things you can find around your home, an arc welder, steel pipe, two 45 degree joints it's possible to construct an internal exposed vent from any air conditioning outlet to your bed/chair/recliner that will allow you to remain cool so long as one doesn't move. Of course the above referenced temperature are the actual recorded temperature, the perceived temperatures are always higher unless it's winter-which it's not just now-in which case it would be lower.

Last week after two days of rain and flash floods in Western Pennsylvania, I called my lawn service because the grass was getting too high.

Well, it rained later that afternoon and the lawn guys came the following day after it dried out.



Here's what troubles me -- As they were mowing, I opened the door to my garage and looked out and wondered why my stupid eyes and eyeglasses always looked streaky and shimmery when looking from dark to light.

Well it wasn't my eyes, it was a 5 minute rain shower that popped into existence at the time my lawn was dry and being mowed.

What wonderful timing -- I think the rain gods hate me...

GOTCHA!!!

I know I need a small vacation, But it don't look like rain...



Well he's on his third drink before the wheels of the plane leave the ground

Makin points with the stewardess high over long island sound

Shes also spending some time on the island

Too much city madness gives her the blues

They make a date to go dancin and dinin

It seems neither has that much to lose

Chorus:

The weather is here I wish you were beautiful

My thoughts aren't too clear but don't run away

My girlfriends a bore, my job is too dutiful

Hell nobodys perfect would you like to play?

I feel together today

Well now that's just the start of a well-deserved overdue binge

Meanwhile back in the city certain people are starting to cringe

His lawyers are calling his parents

His girlfriend doesn't know what to think

His partners are studying their options

Hes just singin' and orderin' drinks

Chorus:

The weather is here I wish you were beautiful

The skies are too clear life's so easy today

The beer is too cold, the daiquiris too fruitiful

No place like home when you're this far away

I don't care what they say (I don't care)

Hes goin' back to new york pack it up and let everyone know

It was something that he should have done such a long time ago

Still time to start a new life in the palm trees

Ah, billy clyde wasn't insane

And if it doesnt't't work out there'll never be any doubt

That the pleasure was worth all the pain

Chorus:

The weather is here I wish you were beautiful

The skies are too clear lifes so easy today

The beer is too cold, the daiquiris too fruitiful

No place like home when you're this far away

Time for to play

I need time for to play

Time for to play

I need time for to play

I need time for to play

I need time for to play

I need time for to play

I need time for to play

I need time for to play

We had a good ol' gullywasher the other day, I am sure A-1 saw. I was standing outside the local butcher/deli when it hit. The umbrella did no good. In minutes, the town was flooding, cars were floating, I was soaked, my umbrella inverted. Thank Whomever you choose that my lunch was sealed in baggies! I came back in, said "Can I get a towel, please?" The girls at the counter were just rolling. Unbelievable what this one passing storm did.

We have a spot in the strip of bordering forest here where there is a streambed, dry unless it rains hard and the underground stream erupts like a geyser. It did that, too. The forest is just 'swept', and there's even sand deposited all over it now, meaning the water was erupting from deep down near the gravel bed I mapped out when they drilled the well and I compared it to my old Boy Scout notes. I am led to believe that the creek here in this valley was once a huge river, and the old banks were very gravel filled and now buried under soil.

The grass is loving it, the garden not so much as it's perpetually soggy this year and you sink just walking in it.