It is raining off and on, mostly on for the last half hour, a monsoon-type rain, like we had in Puerto Rico when I was a child, or in Virginia. But not warm like those rains… Big, heavy drops, beating down the leaves, the branches, beating into the earth, the roof, beating rolling thumping. It […]
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How bad it gets…
Road closures everywhere. Here is a screenshot from the Dept of Transportation’s website at about 7 pm this evening. Click on the thumbnail for a bigger look, use your back button to return. Our home is staying dry, the temporary fix on the leaking skylight appears to be holding.
Behind Again…
and it’s only a short week into the NEW Year! I still need to finish going through and editing the photos from the trip to Victoria, now almost two weeks ago. I want to blog about my new class… and will. Soon. Maybe tomorrow. I hope. But this week has been hectic, in part because […]
Rainy Days and Sundays…
Have I mentioned rain before? End of the first week in November, and we have flooding (seems a bit early to me) to the west, south and north of us around Puget Sound, and a little bit in places around our own town. I suspect the only reason there isn’t a lot of flooding to […]
Snow Day
Today we woke to snow. No school for one, late start for the other child. My volunteering for the day was scratched, of course. I didn’t take any pictures today — I think there will be snow again this year. The way the weather has been, I rather expect more like this, more regularly than […]
Surreal Week (and did I mention the rain?)
Last Sunday, we watched the tail end of the snow from the previous day melt. Monday, heavy rain had water rushing over the highway that runs parallel to the road I usually take to get into town… and then over the road itself. When I passed by, it wasn’t too alarming, but apparently later in […]