It snowed here today

Thanks for the sunset. We go to Anna Maria every Christmas and the Florida sunset is part of our daily liturgy.
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They are lying through their teeth here regarding the Sunday forecast, trying to give us hope: That should give us a drenching downpour. I'll be cooking out with one hand on the turner and one hand holding the umbrella.

Have a nice weekend.

Joe

It's been raining for far too long here. By the time I'll be able to get back into the garden, the grass will be over my head! Or is that the weeds?

You guys need a trip to my favorite beach ...



Come on down, to heck with the BBQ:)

Great pics Misti :-D

Hang in there Joe, I'm workin on it ;-)

Beth
I'll scrunch my face for sunshine going your way as well. This is a tougher job than I thought. It's was sunny but cool here today, so I planted my peas before it starts raining tonight. It's suppose to rain here on and off until tues, which is ok because my garden needs it.

We are back to rain and cooler temperatures here in the south of Germany, also.

No rain here (= 'middle-west' Germany) and warmer.

I'm sorry Urs about the dreary weather ... but you're that much closer to your next visit to Florida:)

Yesterday, we played the cushion game. No, it's not as much fun as that sounds. It's where three people try to guess whether it's going to rain hard enough to make the party move inside. First, you put the cushions out on all the chairs and the two lounges, and you tie all the strings on them nice and tight with little bows. You sit down, have a drink and just when you are getting to the good part of your story, it starts to sprinkle, not rain, just a few drops, so few you can count them........PANIC. Yank all the strings, ARRGGH, they are tied too tight, and you have to pick at them to get them loose, but you do it. You get the cushions off and head for the back porch. WAIT......... it stopped. Take the cushions back to chairs, tie two strings, feel three, no six drops, PANIC.... (where's my drink?) move cushions to back porch..... do this three or four times and you pretty much wish it would pour down from heavens, but it never does.

So we put the cushions back out, tied the strings on loosely and played UpWords until the others came. There was a sprinkle or two but we sat and talked, solved all the world's problems while eating our cheese and olives, salad and hamburgers, strawberry shortcake and coffee.

Joe

The cushion game, that is like the cigarette game. If you light up, the waiter will come. I just checked in here and read through the posts, mostly about the weather since the topic is, but I have to speak up to New Haven re getting over ciggy craving. Some people do, some don't. I quit twenty years ago, haven't craved them at all for at least 15 and hardly before that, and yes, I smoked a lot. Anyway, good luck, Rae, and enjoy yourself without them.

On weather, I come from Rainville, California...no kidding, I'm from Eureka now, and we have had a multirecord very wet year. But California rain is a little different than some other places' rain in that once it stops in late late spring it is apt to not rain again (possible drizzles) until November. So as soon as we get rain relief it is time to begin to think about irrigating the plants for the summer, shallow rooted or newly planted ones anyway.

Today it was almost hot...it's 63 now at about 7 pm....and sunny. One of the continuously pleasing things about our coastal microclimate is that when it isn't foggy, or raining, the sky tends to be a crystal palace...the light has relatively little particulate matter to move through, and can be blindingly beautiful.

Man-alive! When will it get warm? I looked at a temp map of the states today. I felt like scanning the whole thing and posting it online. The entire country is a warm orange, peach, red color except for new england. We're green. It's been cold. grrrrr. and rainy.

Scuse the rant, carry on.

And that's not mentioning my lab partner. 18 year old Chinese exchange student. <drool>

Joe
LOL, I know how that goes.

Wilso
18!!!!! Oh my lord!!!! You're a bad as me (almost) LOL

ossobuco
Sounds like you get lots of rain and sun as well.

Littlek
I hear ya girl. We've had a few nice warm days, but just enough to be a tease :-( It's suppose to start raining tonight and rain right through the weekend, so it looks like I'll be working in the shed. Well, it needs to be cleaned anyway and there's electricity in there, so I can cut some boards that I've been meaning to cut for fire wood and do a tune up on the lawn tractor <sigh>

You just keep getting sexier

Montana, if your avatar is anything to go by - either put on a sweater or move to Queensland. Sweetie, youse gotta be cold in the Midwest with ribbons and underwear for clothing!!

:wink:

I'm actually in Canada and it does get pretty chilly up this way, although it's beautiful in the summer when the warm weather finally gets here.

YAAAYY!! The weather has returned! People are dancing in the streets!
Three people anyways. It's SNOWING!

The wind is blowing, clouds are bubbling, and THUNDER rumbling!
I opened all the windows, sat with a cup of coffee
and just watched all the tourists on the street below!

Some people huddle in misery, some rush and flinch, others scamper to their cars.
Summertime tourists caught in their shorts, raising their shopping bags to the skies
as if crass commercialism will protect them from facing eternity! :-D

I love this stuff, man! The ground is white! People are slip-sliding!
Weather shows us how small, how large, how very much in
and part of the world we are.

One woman wrapped in a bright summer shawl floated across the road,
smoothly walking through snow in flimsy sandals. A dancer. As she got closer
I saw that she was beaming. A bright wide smile, beatific with joy, simple
amazement and laughing wonder, no threat, worry or fear in her step.

She looked up at the sky, caught my eyes in the window and our smiles
matched each other perfectly. Gazing delight. Isn't this SO cool!
A flash of lightning and thunder. Isn't this SO great! Wet, chilled, and purely white.

Without breaking her glide our eyes danced together, speaking and
celebrating everything that it is to be alive. A moment, two moments.
I couldn't offer her any bigger prayer than my own love of the air,
so I blew her a kiss, she caught it, spun around, and drifted by.

The sky!
Love tossed into the wind is not lost to the world,
but adds to the glee in each moment of the day.

I wonder who the woman was. I wonder about the trees.
I wonder about the sky and so many things...
It's snowing outside!




-- Lake Tahoe, California, Mon Jun 23, 2003 --

CodeBorg, great post. You really have a gift for writing!

I lived in Incline Village several years ago. I remember it snowed on Father's Day - just enough to make everything white. I lived in a heavily wooded area (which has probably built up by now.) I didn't have to work that day, so I built a fire in the fireplace and enjoyed watching nature do her thing - in the middle of June. It was "cool" in more ways than one.

Codeborg
Yes, very nice post indeed! Thanks for sharing :-D

I'm in the middle of planting my garden, so I wouldn't be a very happy camper if it snowed here. We get so much snow in the winter that summer snow wouldn't be a thrill for this gal.

Chatoyant
I do love a nice fire in the winter. Makes me wish we had a fireplace.