Posted on 06/16/2004 7:20:18 AM PDT by Timeout
It's been raining for 5 days straight here on the Gulf Coast. 6 inches Monday and another 6 on Tuesday. Computer blipping off and on. Lighting r-r-r-r-r-rips the sky. Constant thunder renders kitty to a helpless blob, head "hiding" in her armpit for hours at a time.
Nothing discourages the young cardinal couple with their nest in the azalea at the end of the drive. Heedless of the downpour, they show up on schedule for their morning ration of bread crumbs. The bread turns to instant mush, but somehow they fill their beaks and return to the nest.
I've loved thunderstorms all my life. As children, we spent those rainy days with toys never touched when the sun was shining...Sugarland, Scrabble, paper dolls, usually played in a "fort" made with blankets thrown over the dining room table. And cooking. When rain kept us indoors for days on end, my mother started cooking...and cooking...and cooking. Casseroles, cookies, pies, shelling peas, soups...you name it, we cooked it. To this day, when it pours, I cook. Soggy therapy, I guess.
In California, a thunderstorm was a rare event. We rarely saw lightning or woke to the rumble of thunder. For me it was like an amputation, going through summer with no flashbang. In later years, my job required me to drive across the Mojave Desert frequently. There was always a thunderstorm in the late afternoon. Now THAT was a lightning show!
Gotta go check the pies.
Send a LOT of rain our way..!! Iowa Park, TX is drying up.. :( Already on water restrictions. BUT..! Chance of rain tonight and through the weekend..!! WooHooooo
I found a ping list, and will utilize it in the next post.
Pinging to today's new Guild thread.
Selfishly, I'm hoping for a fairly dry July in MA. We've gotta dig the hole and pour the basement walls for the addition to our house!
I drove past a nearby park with a large soccer/baseball field complex, playground and pavilions, and it is ALL under water!
Other than all the Kerry bumper stickers, it's still beautiful! :o)
Hi Sis, have you seen this?
http://www.wketchup.com/
We just came back from playing golf. Practically the whole course was under water. If I could have fit a wet-dry vacuum in the bag, I would have carried it with me instead of my fairway woods.
Janet Jackson says that she and her breast were used. The singer who brought us Nipplegate feels that she’s the victim of “a plot by conservative forces” in the U.S. according to the Sunday Express of London.
“I was used just to take the attention off what was really going on in the world,” Jackson told the paper.
“A lot of things that actually happened, the after-effects, all that was already on the desk but everyone’s trying to point the finger, ‘See what you did, see what you did.’ I didn’t do anything. It was going to happen at some point with someone, it just so happened to be me. They made something out of nothing. ... Everybody’s got their underwear in a knot in America.” MSNBC
Paranoid schizophrenia is perfectly sane as long as the ones you claim are out to get you are conservatives.
Hey, sis. Kewl!
Mr. M and I will be cheering mightily for "our boy" tomorrow!
I'm hunkering down for the 3rd Thunderstorm of the day. I fear my grandchildren will grow webs between their toes. And the younger ones have probably forgotten what the sun looks like.
Thanks...big day. His mom & dad headed up there today. They'll have a fun week. Stewart, Lisa & the boys were already in the NY area for last week's tournament, stayed over and moved out to Long Island this week for the Open. Stewart & Lisa went into NYC Saturday to celebrate their anniversary.
Tee times are 1:10 Eastern Thursday and 8:10 Friday. He's playing with Vijay Singh. I imagine they'll get a good bit of coverage. Fingers crossed here!
This Guild thread doesn't appear in the "Guild search" feature. I must have clicked a wrong button. Can it be fixed?
On the last thread you said "...check out V-catch Basic, SpyBot, and Bit-Defender".
I use SpyBot. Please tell me what the others do. Thanks.
I just checked the Guild search and this thread is there. Sometimes there are threads of another subject that have Guild in the title so you might have to look a little closer.
Thanks so much for the new thread!
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