• Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 8.26.2012

    Outside my window…at 5:45 this evening it is pouring rain, thunder and lightening…..for the last hour.  We are currently at 75°F with a flood advisory until 7:00 this evening….and a pollen alert?  Seriously….pollen?  The rain is forecast to stop around 8:00 this evening.  There is a section of my street that is already flooding again. Yesterday morning we received three inches of hard rain in three hours and it flood a good deal of our region.  When I last checked early yesterday we had received 3.54 inches of rain….I don’t know what the final tally was for my area, let’s just say I have two very full rain barrels.  …

  • Outside My Window

    Outside My Window ~ 9.19.2011

    Outside my window…is a mild albeit mostly cloudy Monday afternoon.  Our temperature during the noon hour is 72°F….close to the forecast high of 73°F.  We had rain all weekend…not torrential rains, light and steady for the most part.  Tomorrow will be warmer with a forecast high of 80°F and a chance of thunderstorms.  With the exception of a few warmer days in the middle of the week, we will experience more days like today over the next week or so.  I’m loving me some cooler temperatures….don’t even mind the rain showers. I am thinking…or maybe I should say I am hoping beyond hope that the repairs for my daughter’s car…