Re: OT: It's Raining!

On Sat 11 Mar 2006 06:01:30p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Boron
Elgar?

On 12 Mar 2006 00:38:51 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
<wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat 11 Mar 2006 04:03:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Boron
Elgar?

On 11 Mar 2006 21:36:02 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
<wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote:

After over 4 months without a drop of rain, it's finally raining in
Phoenix! A great steady downpour began in the middle of the night and
has been raining continuously. It's now after 1:00pm. I'm
"freezing"! You can't imagine what a wet 38°F feels like to someone
who's used to a dry 80°F. This is first time I've had the furnace on
this year.

Congratulations. Chilly as it is, I bet it makes the air smell sweet
and all the greenery will be shiny clean afterwards.

Thanks, Boron. It really does cleanse the air and even the desert
plants appreciate a good washing. The lot we just bought where we'll
put our new house has a smattering of wild African daisies on it. Our
new neighbor mentioned a few days ago that if we'd had any rain, the
entire property would be covered in them. Very pretty.

After so long without rain, I bet a drive out to nearby desert would
be spectacular in a week.

Yes, it will definitely be worth a drive. The desert is full of color
after such a rain. We actually live in the desert, just a few miles from
the absence of civilization. We won't have far to drive.

When do you break ground?

We close on the property in the middle of May. I believe work will begin
by mid-June at the latest, since all contracts are signed.

Here is northern NJ we have been in shirt sleeves the yesterday and
today & my tulips are up a few inches...just enough to get the damn
deer to nibble at them.

Spring is finally headed toward NJ, then. The emerging of spring is one
of the few things I really miss from living many years in NE OH.

I grew up in Detroit & have traveled the Rte 80 path through NE OH
many a time.

Oh, the Ohio Turnpike. We lived only 10-12 miles from it for many years,
and traveled it many times to Michigan on our way to the Upper Peninsula.

OB Food: Pots of chili and beef-mushroom-barley soup are simmering on
the stove. I will bake cornbread to go with it for supper.

I have sourdough based bread dough ripening and fermenting in the
fridge to bake for tomorrow for when The Princess comes home on spring
break. Tonight we eat goodies from the Polish deli!

Oh, if I could only get back to my breadbaking! I don't dare while I'm
on Weight Watchers. Sitting down to a fresh loaf is far too
tempting!:-(

The kids and The Hub eat more of it than I, as a diabetic, do. I get
to taste, they get to indulge.

I can sympathize. I am type 2 diabetic, but have had my meds reduced by
2/3s with my weight loss. Still, I have to watch.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
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BIOYA
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