STORMY WEATHER
This is dedicated to ma, and come on, get out of the hospital soon, and Jon, Happy 26th birthday tomorrow!
We had a rough day today. I did not sleep well anyway because of the thunder and lightening that lit up the night from about 4:00 AM on. Steve got up to unplug the computer and I pulled the plug out of the TV/stereo/DVD and tried to turn over. But a few late weather mosquitoes must have entered our bedroom for shelter and made a feast out of me! I was bitten all over my arms and woke when I did drift off because I had to scratch those bumps and bites. Finally at 5:30 I got up and went on line to IM my daughter and check on mail about my mother. But little did I know that the rest of the world was doing other weird things too. When I looked outside at the dawn, I saw half of a dramatically dark sky that periodically lit up with distant lightening, and half normal sunrise.
After our first winter breakfast of oatmeal and brown sugar, we headed into town to get a haircut for me that was long overdue, and to get batteries for both of watches that had stopped about the same time. The roads were strewn with branches and mud, and the going was slow. Then we saw this foam-like substance and could not figure out what it was. It was not till we finished our errands that I figured out it was not foam-it was ice! Or more precisely, large granules of hail that did not melt in shady spots. So we stopped and took a picture, even though we had seen hail here many times before. But we have never seen an accumulation that lasted under sun bright enough to dry all of the laundry that we hung on the porch. Joe called from across town and said that the hail damaged the hibiscus he grows so well, but we had no plant damage at all, so it was definitely a spotty occurrence.
We stopped to check on the mudslide/erosion situation in the fields across from our house that have been featured in previous reports. There is starting to be a bit erosion in the places where the fire burned the biggest spot, and the track of the machinery on the condo hillside that was right over the red-roofed house is starting to be obliterated totally. And the winter rains have just begun!
We had a rough day today. I did not sleep well anyway because of the thunder and lightening that lit up the night from about 4:00 AM on. Steve got up to unplug the computer and I pulled the plug out of the TV/stereo/DVD and tried to turn over. But a few late weather mosquitoes must have entered our bedroom for shelter and made a feast out of me! I was bitten all over my arms and woke when I did drift off because I had to scratch those bumps and bites. Finally at 5:30 I got up and went on line to IM my daughter and check on mail about my mother. But little did I know that the rest of the world was doing other weird things too. When I looked outside at the dawn, I saw half of a dramatically dark sky that periodically lit up with distant lightening, and half normal sunrise.
After our first winter breakfast of oatmeal and brown sugar, we headed into town to get a haircut for me that was long overdue, and to get batteries for both of watches that had stopped about the same time. The roads were strewn with branches and mud, and the going was slow. Then we saw this foam-like substance and could not figure out what it was. It was not till we finished our errands that I figured out it was not foam-it was ice! Or more precisely, large granules of hail that did not melt in shady spots. So we stopped and took a picture, even though we had seen hail here many times before. But we have never seen an accumulation that lasted under sun bright enough to dry all of the laundry that we hung on the porch. Joe called from across town and said that the hail damaged the hibiscus he grows so well, but we had no plant damage at all, so it was definitely a spotty occurrence.
We stopped to check on the mudslide/erosion situation in the fields across from our house that have been featured in previous reports. There is starting to be a bit erosion in the places where the fire burned the biggest spot, and the track of the machinery on the condo hillside that was right over the red-roofed house is starting to be obliterated totally. And the winter rains have just begun!
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