In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well the last few days, today, and the next 3 days are in the 90-100F range with a 'red flag warning' - high fire danger due to the hot, dry Santa Ana winds. After that temps are predicted to drop as onshore airflow returns.
The recharge basins under the 'wings' of the T-shaped interchange of the 605N/S and the 210E/W (the 605 abuts the 210) were full when I went past them on Sunday. The ppl who manage the system must be purchasing water from elsewhere to recharge the ground water basin.
And as I was wandering through a local newscast, a long-term prediction for this winter is that it'll be very dry in terms of rain - 8" - which is about half the normal amount.
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I know that you don;t have AC KIKI, you must be looking forward to the cooldown even more than I am, and I'm counting the hours! At least it's cooling down at night ... over here roughly sixty-ish. But that means an almost 40-degree swing from hottest to coldest. Crazy, huh?
Yep, there's no way the recharge basins could be full with local water, mist be the expen$ive imported kind. I sure hope Raines is wrong with his forecast! Funny thing, we had so many years of sparse rain and then last year with so much, as I walk the dog I ee a lot of re-roofing going on in preparation for THIS winter. I wonder what people will think if the rains don't come? It's Mother Nature, and her practical jokes, again!
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Over here the cleanup continues - hubby and I (the trusty helper) fixed a couple of HVAC vents that had come down partially, and are cutting tile to fit around the sink.
On my end, I'm cleaning out the office. It's hard to stitch together more than an hour or two for the cleanup, and it's kind of detailed work because I have to look at many small items and papers. But since the office is one of those places where things have collected over time I have several large giveaway boxes that I'm sure I'll fill. Some of my giveaway items include a few small items of "vaseline glass" given to me by a colleague. Vaseline glass is a transparent form of uranium glass which was made with ... yep, you guessed it! ... uranium, which was added to the glass before the melt.
Uranium creates a bright greenish yellow color, and some items have iron oxide melted in them which turns the piece more distinctly green, but the cool reason why the glassmakers used it wasn't because of the bright color but because it glows under UV light! If you put the pieces in bright sunlight then run into a dark room you'll see it glow for few minutes from absorbed energy. Apparently it was quite the novelty in Victorian days and later. Also it's slightly radioactive, which I have duly noted on the box.
Anyway,finding lots of items to give away!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Wow... Uranium glass? Kind of crazy the things we used to make things with before we knew better. I don't blame you for getting that out of the house. 
Man.... I know you don't want it, but I'd trade weather with you Kiki. Staring down the barrel of 4 or 5 cold months and high energy bills over here. Down in the 30's again tonight. The days in the 60's are probably over now unless we get some weird fluke weather.
Kind of been having a bad week. I think my SAD has started popping up.
At least my friend is coming over tonight and we're going to work on the floor and possibly on installing the new door if there is time for it. We won't probably have either of them done in one night, but at least 80% of the floor should have a surface to safely walk on.
Going to get my haircut today. I've waited a bit too long between cuts this time. I never feel good when I get this shaggy and I always feel great after getting it cut. Maybe that's just what the doctor ordered. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SAD ... I hope a haircut takes care of that! At least for a few weeks!!
I have posted to Brenda that getting a bright full-spectrum light might help, if that's what you have. 20 minutes a day works, or so "they" say!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Couple of more days of rain expected then drying out again for the beginning of November.
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Signy, I hope you're not too terribly frustrated with the pace of things. But it sounds like things that need doing are getting done - and that's a good thing! (I mean, imagine them not getting done, and more and more household disasters just continuing to pile up over time - right?)
UH ... could we arrange for me to have some of that glass? I normally am NOT one for decorations and tchotchkes but those sound unique.
Yeah, I'm waiting for a cooldown as well.
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I don't envy you your winters, Jack! It gets somewhat cold here - sometimes down to below freezing - but not like where you are! Have you considered an electric blanket? Sleeping cold is a real problem and for not much cash outlay or electricity cost you could be reasonably comfortable while you sleep.
Aside from being cold at night, I think what makes me most bugnuts about real winters like what you have is the driving. And though you pay for your beautiful green summer biome with winter snow, what makes me most bugnuts is the driving in snow. I could personally can put up with the cold, but the snow makes everything that much more ... difficult.
I get SAD. It's no bueno.
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Enjoy the dry you've got coming Brenda!
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As for me - I spent hours - HOURS - yesterday looking for my cellphone. I did find it - a black phone on a nearly black floor tucked away near the chair - but what a waste of time!
Going to do some generic cleanup at home today - what I call tasks as opposed to projects. Projects would be me continuing to 'move' from my entire house into the front half, in preparation for tearing the back half down. But today is going to be focused on dishes, bank, laundry, shopping, cooking, and ordering some things online as gifts, replacements, etc.
ETA: one of the things on my list for today was to try on new sneakers I bought online. I haven't had a real pair of sneakers in probably over a decade, or a real pair of shoes in 3 decades because I have godawful wide feet. So I measured and measured and looked at all the online size charts and figured my feet are a mens's 10/6E and ordered from NewBalance because they have actual widths (thanks for the tip, Signy!). And I JUST tried them on. I CAN WEAR THEM! They're a little loose in the heel, but differential lacing can take care of that. For the first time in AT LEAST 10 years, I have sneakers!!
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Oh sure Kiki, you can have the whole box! I think it's only five small items iirc, but it's all boxed up and ready to go. I'll PM you.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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