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[desert_dreamer]

Hmm. For a little while there it was raining pretty hard, but it's already letting up. I love rain, and I always wish it would go on for days and days. But that hardly ever happens. It's raining right now, but I'm sure it will stop long before sunrise. I love falling asleep to the sound of rain, but even more than that I love waking up to the

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[kathykat]

I remember all that water rationing stuff, and I know that by saying it wasn't a big deal, you just got a higher bill, etc, you mean we weren't really affected alot by it...which was true, but it was prolly a big deal to someone. I have always been very environmental, it usually bugs people...I'll save water bottles and other containers at work and bring them home and recycle them, etc. My sister-in-law once got irritated with my recycling views and I apologized to her, but informed her that I am a citizen of the world!!

Anyway...I think the whole rain thing totally depends on the year. We used to drive down and visit family in SoCal and it was always noticalby hotter there, especially around Christmas when I'm used to it being cold.

I remember when I was younger like around Kindergarten age, my Mom said that Christmas was after the "big rains" and it had been a rainy few years. And there are times when it rains for days on end here, but it doesn't happen every year.

And I grew up in Redwood City, between SF and San Josie, although admittedly San Josie is much more hot, being farther south.

For most of my late 20's and 30's so far it has been different as far as rain goes...it doesn't rain so much anymore most years, and the thing that makes me raise an eyebrow is that if you watch the news when it is raining, or will rain, or will continue to rain, it seems to the newscasters and the general public view that rain is an Alien Visitor that they really don't know what to do with! ...Weird...

I once read this book...shivered my timbers it did...it was called Ice Blink...about explorers commissioned to find the "northwest passage" through the Arctic circle. They were from England, early to mid 1800's I believe. They had a fully stocked ship (although the canning process was newly invented and the quality of the food storage began giving everyone botulism which they did'nt even know such a thing existed yet) Anyways--they had a fully stocked ship (food, fuel, piano, etc) and could've lasted for a few years if they got "stuck" and stuck they did get. The weather patterns went in about 5 year cycles (which they also didn't really know yet) and they got really far in the first year of the voyage, in fact really close to finding a passage through the ice. Then they "over wintered" in their spot, but were stuck there for like another two winters...just stuck in the ice, in the arctic, ship not mobile.

If they had known more about weather patterns then, they woulda made the trip on the cusp of the warming years instead.

okay....did I babble on enough????!