In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well, would you look at that! Almost to normal!
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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btw Brenda, I'm from the northeast. In my last few years living up there, out of nowhere, I developed a strong phobia about slipping on ice. It made winters up there difficult.
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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That was some ice patch, Brenda! It seemed like it took forever to start melting!
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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I feel for ya Brenda. We've had an amazing winter here so far, but living around Chicago all of my life I know a thing or two about terrible winters.
About 7-8 winters ago me and my bro were living up in Wisconsin. New management came in and cut corners everywhere. Rather than have the normal plows come in and salt everything in a winter with very heavy snowfall, they used their own crew with tiny bobcats for some reason. At one point things melted and froze up right away before having a chance to drain off. The entire parking lot was literally an ice rink for about a week. I'm not even joking when I say that there was about an inch and a half of ice covering every square foot of the parking lot. And they did nothing about it!!!
My brother slipped and fell one morning and a neighbor yelled "GOOD!". Pissed off, my brother yelled "What!" back to him. He said "Good. You fell and I saw it. Let's sue these bastards!".
Fortunately we were still in our 20's back then and it wasn't a bad fall, so there was no lawsuit. If my brother fell like that today with his weight and older age, he could have been crippled by it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Brenda, wow, this seems to be a helluva winter for you!
I know that a lot of BC gets snow, but around Vancouver it's kind of a rarity, right? Kind of like Portland and Seattle?
I wish I could do something for you from this distance.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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As for here ... not quite at normal.
How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?
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Amazing that our weather would be so different.
I guess you got the warm air and we got the cold air!
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
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Three weekends ago, we got what I believe to be the last big storm of the season. It rained, harder than I've seen in rain in years, and the swirling gusts were so strong they blew that rain into spray. My casual rain gage said 3.25" in one day and it may have overflowed, so possibly it was more than that. For the first time, the swale in my front yard filled up.
It seemed like a mighty generous rain year, and compared to the previous years it was. But south of (roughly) Point Conception, the "overage" was only five inches or so ... hardly enough to overcome the three FEET of deficit accumulated in the past five years. Surface-water-wise, we're doing great. Groundwater-wise, not so much.
Still I can't believe how GREEN everything looks! The hills are cloaked with green. Lupines - ever shy to sprout unless there are several weeks of near-continuous wetness- may bloom again this year. Maybe this year we'll get a blizzard of painted-lady butterflies again. There are two places I hope to visit once I get past the busy-ness of the next few weeks: Turnbull Canyon Road, and Rancho Santa Ana. I'm looking forward to it!
We have been blessed.
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR IS A DEEP-STATE TROLL
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the frozen wastes of Winterfell here are finally melting.
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I almost had a heart attack just now...
2:30 in the morning and I went down in my basement to roll a cigarette and on the cold tile floor my socks were sopping wet! I thought my sump pump died again and I was going to have to wait 4 hours until the Menards opened so I could buy a new one and thoughts of my previous two nightmares of swapping out sump pumps in the crawl space in a foot of freezing water hit me in the face.
Turns out it was just about a gallon worth of water that seeped in from the outside. I still haven't had gutters installed and we got slammed with the hardest rain I've seen in 5 years last night. It's a wonder the power didn't go out in those thunder storms.
Crisis averted... My sump pump even did me the solid of kicking off while I was down there, just to let me know it was still doing its job 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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