I'm probably overthinking this ( Read more... )

The rain woke me last night. I sleep right under the roof in a the low end of the eaves of a converted attic, so the water was drumming less than a yard above my head. I went downstairs to pee, and the little dog woke, heard a noise she had never heard in her life before, and barked and barked to warn me ( Read more... )

The latest attempt to split California into little bitty pieces has achieved a pile of signatures to turn in. I never did figure out how to complain about the deceptive signature gathering techniques being used in Santa Cruz. The man with the clipboards was asking people if they wanted to sign a petiution to allow local governments to outlaw ( Read more... )

Just looked outside and it's definitely wet. Can't really call that rain, but it is water on the ground that came from the sky. Guess I should put out some pots to catch it.

How bad is it? This is how bad it is. I tried to find a better view of the map, but basically, there's no water anywhere, and there's even less water in the Central Coast and the southern Valley. I live in the Central Coast. One good/bad thing is that all our water comes from here -- no water from the Sierra Nevada, no water from the Delta, no ( Read more... )

I decided not to buy and install a rain barrel this year (they are only 45 dollars from the city water department) because there wasn't any rain.

I believe that today I could have filled the whole thing.

I am filling what I can, but I won't be able to save it for long.

I left laundry on the line and it's raining raining and I don't care because it's raining ( Read more... )

One thing you can say about plants is they tend to be pretty optimistic. Stress them, and what do they do? Set seed ( Read more... )

From the NOAA site, we learn this ( Read more... )

Today, in the front yard ( Read more... )