Well, that’s not completely true. This post got clobbered, and my hosting service won’t let me restore from the backup I diligently made! More about that Sunday? In the meantime, try again.
The road may be slightly less than perfect, but it’s still passable:
And we’re thankful for the rain. The plants need it so they can hold the soil in place and slow down the water. We’re hoping future rains will start soaking into the soil instead of washing out the roads.
As usual, we’ll just have to see.
In the meantime we’re relishing the first rainy season we’ve had in years. It’s not just the rain itself — we’re having glorious clouds again! I had forgotten how much I missed them.
Anything exciting happening in your neck of the woods?
I’ve decided to combine the two blogs, so I won’t be posting there in the future. The plan is to post here on Thursdays and Sundays.
A little too much probably
Evan,
I hope it tapers off a bit for you. Things have been crazy here too, but just computer glitches, nothing serious.
Here are the comments people left at the final post at stresstopower:
Cathy:
Okay
bikehikebabe:
We’re learning a lot with you.
Rummuser:
A good move.
Jean:
It’s funny that I didn’t do it sooner. It’s so easy to get in ruts and not stand back and think about what makes sense.
We have had hardly any rain, real stuff, not wet/fog stuff – for weeks. We have
been told yet again this w/end it will be coming but we still have Friday to get
through!
They are saying that Spring like weather is expected sooner than normal…but
more forecasting!
September can be awfully cold…time will tell 🙂
Cathy,
Good luck on it not getting too cold.
Is NZ concerned about global warming? What’s your altitude there?
I’ve used to strive for perfection. Now I have to settle for whatever comes my way. Same with your road. C’est la vie.
bikehikebabe,
That’s been my attitude as I’ve been dealing with WordPress and my hosting service. It’s just part of the adventure of life. The title of Sunday’s post may very well be, “Yay, Jean!” for staying so cheerful.
Our weather isn’t exciting, but it’s certainly different — wetter and cooler than normal. It was supposed to be dry today according to all the predictions — 0% chance of precip — , but we woke up to a dark day, thunder, and rain.
Models are sometimes wrong even 12 hours out. Not complaining about the rain, though; sure beats the drought of 2013 here.
Mike,
We agree that the rain is a lot better than the drought. We New Mexicans get excited by rain, thunder and big fluffy clouds. Wow! It’s been a long time.
I think I’ve retrieved all of the comments from email and have them back — almost where they belong. If not, please let me know. Never doubt that I appreciate your comments!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland
This my regional area and it states the altitude on the right hand menu…
Global warning/warming along with the black hole (?terminology) rears it’s head from time to time. But truly I do not understand what it means 🙂
Cathy,
Thank you for the link. Auckland is better off than our whole state of Florida. A friend was taken by the fact it was so flat and low. She said the “hills” were man-made from garbage. I don’t know how true that is, but I never forgot the image. )
Global warming means the sea level will rise and cities along the coast could eventually be in trouble. Most scientists think we’re in a warming trend, but even if it’s caused by humans it’s hard to believe we would do the “right” thing if we tried to change the climate. For instance the Environmental Protection Agency mandated that ethanol be added to our gasoline. Not its wisest decision.
It reminds me of a friend who had brain cancer. It took weeks for the biopsy analysis to come back, and all he could think of was, “That sucker is in there growing, why don’t you DO something.” In fact, figuring out what kind of cancer it was meant that the treatment had a better chance of doing more good than harm.
Reality is complicated.
Apart from a very good monsoon, the wedding season is here and things are a bit unusual to say the least.
Apart from a very good monsoon, the wedding season is here and things are a bit unusual to say the least.
When exactly is the wedding? Will it change your life very much?
we are in the main close to the sea, but we also have 21 + extinct volcanoes…some have been “mined for road material” but some still looking down on us 🙂
one that is our face, interesting to visit is Rangitoto Island linked by causeway to Motutapu (?spelling)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island – wikip does it again! It doesn’t matter which side you are viewing it from – looks the same although I have never viewed it from “rear”
Cathy,
Thanks for the link. Hurray for Wikipedia! The last picture shows some nice clouds too.
Jean, I think the Indian wedding season is based on auspicious time of the year, more than anything else…from what I’ve looked up this also the metal/gold buying time and there is a problem this year with both supply and price…maybe also the weather is better (that is my assumption).
Cathy,
What say you, Rummuser? How did Ranjan and his wife-to-be decide?
I didn’t read it, but there was a Wall Street Journal article about gold being scarce in India. Thanks for bringing it up, Cathy. It’s fun to think about things like this.
Cathy,
As long as the volcanoes stay extinct!
good grief Charlie brown!!!
what a wonderful smorgasbord of comments and replies!!!
i had a little trouble following… but was delighted.
i somehow missed that ranjan is getting MARRIED!!! ???
and i’m glad to have the links of auckland.
i rejoice with you in your rain monk!!!
YAYYY!
i too like nothing better than a good thunderstorm. i’m a sky and cloud watcher all my life. i think you either are or you aren’t. kind of like the color of your eyes. LOL. xoxo
tammy,
Yes, Rummuser mentioned it when he replied to my comment in What You See Outside the Window. I asked what he saw inside the apartment and he mentioned it. I was glad I asked the question!
PS I agree that the comments can get confusing. That’s why I’m trying to get a theme that lets us put some order into them. Unfortunately this one messes up our gravatars. In the fullness of time I’ll see if I can get that fixed.
Tammy
Jean asks leading questions…and as most of us are probably not tackling the road above we swan off in so many different directions of “what is happening in our own locality”
Finally, yesterday with only fog/drizzle of late, it began to rain but it seems although the weather guy found the right button, it wasn’t the big thundery and lightening with lashing of rain one…it’s damp, there was lite rain but I’m not sure if it was enough.
This morning weak sun, damp looking but think I will go into talk at city art gallery anyway…
Cathy,
Yes, these posts are to start conversations and share what’s going on in our lives. The comments are more fun when people talk about what’s interesting to them at the moment.
How often is your weather “misty and moisty”? How much is it rainy, and how much sunny? I love hearing about weather.
misty and moisty = fog because of the narrow land band between the 2 oceans – Pacific and Indian – I believe to do with hot air colliding. Often in winter, especially if we haven’t had much rain. Airport gets closed as it is well and truly in open space/sea side. Sometimes, short lived other times well through to midday.
A mixture of weather, probably because of the above narrow land band
Summertime, humidity with not a lot of sun; rain should be around more in Wintertime but this year waxes and wanes.
I don’t think we (those weather boffins) can really pinpoint at times…many people carry a umbrella daily.
Cathy,
Even though we enjoy rain and misty, moisty weather when we get it, I wouldn’t like it all the time. We lived in upstate New York for 8 1/2 years. We saw the sun about 6 times all winter long, and the summers were hot and humid. Mostly dry air plus a rainy season is ideal for us.
Wedding was on the 10th and I could not come here earlier for obvious reasons. Life is changing alright. There is more life at home! It is nice to be pampered by two instead of one.
Congratulations – father in law – may you have more femininity in your home – pampering sounds good as well 🙂
I agree with Cathy, pampering is good!