In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Not drowned (yet!) or blown away (yet!)
MORE RAIN IN THE FORECAST! MORE RAIN! MORE RAIN! MORE RAIN!
does the happy-dance!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Not drowned (yet!) or blown away (yet!)
MORE RAIN IN THE FORECAST! MORE RAIN! MORE RAIN! MORE RAIN!
does the happy-dance!
No mudslides?
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Oh, who cares about mudslides when we're getting RAIN! Glorious RAIN! 
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GA suffered through a couple of droughts several years ago, and I can understand the happy dance for rain. Fortunately, the rain came in the summer, where it was needed most, and man, it was truly glorious. Screw the umbrella, let it rain , baby!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh, who cares about mudslides when we're getting RAIN! Glorious RAIN!
Glad you're finally getting some water, Signy. Enjoy your rain.
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Some rain in the forecast, maybe. El Nino isn't supposed to kick in until late this month, but the weather is finally FINALLY cooling down. Up until about 3 weeks ago, it was still hitting 100+ during the hot spells. Time to plant more CA natives!
The reason why I'm posting isn't because of the rain (altho I got my fingers crossed, and it gotta say that makes it DAMN hard to type!)
No, the reason why I'm posting is because I saw a blue jay (scrub jay) in our backyard
and a female goldfinch .jpg)
shortly afterwards.
This was the first time I've EVER seen a scrub jay here. I've been trying to attract them for quite a while, with peanuts and water, but the only thing I think I ever attracted was squirrels, possums, rats, and raccoons. Yanno, I really missed seeing blue jays, my sis has them (and woodpeckers) all around her house about 40 minutes from here, but we're just not "country" enough. They kind of remind me of my childhood running around in the fields and woods and at daycamp in the summer, so it was a real treat to see one flitting thru the climbing rose bushes.
Also, my backyard is now a certified habitat.
Does another happy dance!
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SAVING A TREE, FOUR GALLONS AT A TIME
There is a small parking lot where I park every Farmer's Market day, and it has a lonely tree... I think it's a Bradford Pear ... that I try to park under, for the shade.
Some time in late-June, I guess, I noticed the tree was looking really stressed ... some branches had brown leaves, many other leaves on other branches were curling back. I guess nobody was watering it, or the irrigation system was broken or something. So I grabbed my emergency gallon of water and dumped it on the tree, and have come back each weekend with four gallons of water. There I am: a crazy old lady watering a parking-lot tree.
I can proudly say that I saved that tree from certain death. With water, the dieback stopped, some branches had out-of-season bloom, and the bud tips on the branches stayed viable. Until we get some actual RAIN (when IS that El Nino showing up, anyway???) I'm going to keep on watering that tree.
Also, most of my CA natives got planted: ceanothus arboreus (CA lilac) - if I'm lucky it will look like this ...
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zauschneria (Ca Fuschia, epilobium)
http://www.dancingoaks.com/shop/images/th2_ZauschneriaEverettsChoice09
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Juncus effusus (rush)
penstemon spectabilis (showy penstemon) 
and quercus tomentella (Island Oak).
It may not be raining, but at least it's gotten cooler, and the plantings are surviving.
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Yes, PLEASE!!!!
If I wish for it really hard, and you wish for it really hard, maybe the rain goddess will make it happen?
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I miss wind and rain. I miss thunderstorms. I'm a transplanted New York upstater who got yanked out of my home state BEFORE I had a chance to get entirely fed up with snow!
When I first moved to CA, aside from my initial reaction to looking down at the air basin from the Cajon Pass, at the end of a 10-day smog siege in August while 3 fires were burning, at the setting sun barely glowing thru the smog, surrounded by rocks and dry stubble, and thinking... I'm moving to Mordor ... well ASIDE from that my SECOND reaction was... Doesn't it ever RAIN here???
Well, it looks like El Nino is making a late entrance. Finally! We've been eking out a tenth of an inch here and there. The state, at the latitude of San Francisco to Porterville, is at about average rainfall. The state ABOVE that latitude is above average. Redding, CA (more than halfway to between San Fran and the Oregon border) is at about 1.5X normal. Portland is at 2.5X normal (flooding). Vancouver BC looks a bit more normal.
www.wundergound.com
Storm after storm has swept north of us. We've gotten the trailing ends of about six storms, eking out 0.1" of rain here and there, but So Cal is definitely below norm. '
Well, it looks like ... after four+ years... rain may finally be arriving: about 1" is forecast for (Mon-Tues crossout) Tues-Wed. The biggest El Nino EV-AR in recorded history is finally bringing some rain. The elephant labored and brought forth a mouse. Not that I'm ungrateful or anything; I'll sacrifice some of my shower-water to the rain-goddess in thanks. (Oh wait! I'm already doing that! That ungrateful rain-goddess! Such a byatch! )
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Maybe it will be a rainy spring, and the rain will wash the pollen out of the air???
Let me know how that goes. I too have massive allergies - not sure to what, haven't been tested yet - which stuffs my nose up all year round to the point where I HAVE to use decongestant and steroid spray at night or I can't breathe.
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Been having fun watching the storm approach, via my favorite website (wunderground.com).
It's a great website because it predicts for YOUR ZIP code, not the for the nearest airport. That makes it a lot better for us, since our local tennis courts are inevitably 5-10 degrees F hotter than the airport, and if I'm going to play tennis, I'm NOT going to play in 90 F weather, dang it!
Although its great at temperature predictions, it tends to underpredict rain. (On the other hand, radio and TV forecasts tend to overpredict rain, so I guess it's "as good" as anything out there.) I have fun watching the "%chance of rainfall" graph as it approaches the day. The way it's been working, for the past 6 storms or so, is that it start out looking like robust chance of rain (50% over two days) ten days out, but as time goes on the chance of rain goes lower and the duration gets shorter until pfffft - nothing! THIS time, the predicted chance of rain has gone HIGHER, the storm has separated into four distinct bands, and the predicted total has gone to 2" instead of 1". So I guess we really WILL get some rain this time, and I take back my comment about the rain goddess.
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
There is a difference between THUGR is a genius., and THUGR is a "genius". And everyone knows it except THUGR, who is a "genius".
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