Saturday, August 10, 2019

Rainy Saturday.


 It's a very wet Saturday but that's perfectly fine, we could use some rain. The weather network has been calling for rain all week; however it never materialized until yesterday. We've had dark clouds, winds, thunder and lightning all week but no rain. All the fields are brown, walking across the lawn is like walking across tacos with all the crunching. Yesterday seems to have broken the dry spell. We had a storm around five and it rained heavily. This morning was the same.


A welcome sight, everything was getting thirsty. I was watering the garden and flowers but it's never the same as a good soaking rain. Unfortunately for today that meant the temperature has really dropped, we are in the sixties Fahrenheit or around seventeen Celsius. I suspect this may be one reason for the rain, cold air can't hold as much moisture the way warm air can.


 Rainy days allow me to stay in and not feel guilty. I can tidy up the house, go through old papers and see what I don't need to keep any more, laundry, maybe vacuum.. maybe.


  Best of all it's been doing this off and on all day, with no bad storms. This is actually enjoyable, I like the sound of a good rain, as if the earth is taking a shower. I like the smell of rain, that fresh scent. Hopefully it will rain most of the night, the parched earth needs the drink.

10 comments:

Old Lurker said...

Rainy days mean you can go out dancing after you have the vacuuming done.

anne marie in philly said...

today feel like an early autumn day here; I have the windows OPEN (no air conditioner running). there is a nice breeze. but the 3 Hs (hazy/hot/humid) will return next week.

Richard said...

I love rainy days. Rain was in the forecast here but it was another hot and dry day.

Sooo-this-is-me said...

Sure, like either one of those things is going to happen! Lol

Sooo-this-is-me said...

Anne Marie, same here for yesterday and then last night it went down to 47° Fahrenheit, brrrr that's cold!

Sooo-this-is-me said...

Richard, it does seem to happen on weekends though! On the plus side, I only saw one mosquito yesterday!

Ur-spo said...

I am mad-jealous. I miss rain so. I really miss the big thunderstorms with their ominous approach and brontides

Sooo-this-is-me said...

Dr Spo, no.. no you don't! Rain yes but thunderstorms no you don't, if I could I would send you all the thunder and lightning that you wanted. :D

Leanna said...

Pass some of the rain down our way here in Texas. Lord knows we need some bad. Just a drop or two would be fine. It's scorching hot in the triple digits. They say 107 for today.

Sooo-this-is-me said...

Leanna, ok let's trade!!! I'll send you some rain and you send some heat! It was 48° here this morning, I was thinking of turning on the heat.
It was getting pretty dry here as well, there was a forest fire about thirty minutes from my place.